Getting to Know You...

Your first week in Maracaibo was made up of a chain of visits as everyone wanted to welcome you.

Monday night was quiet. Grandpa went out with his "viejitos" and we settled in. Some things were familiar - like your little bassinet on the travel crib, the same one you slept in in Savanna. You and your Mom began the process of organizing her old room to make it comfortable for you both. It developed slowly as we didn't get the suitcases from Tia China and Tio Luis until Wednesday nor the one from Lluba until Thursday. We had things that Hilda had brought down to go through as well as all we had been accumulating here since February.

Your first visitors were Fernando and Mayo, along with Maria de los Angeles. Marcia came by with Marcela and then later in the week with both Marcela and Juan Ignacio. Your padrino, Enrique, was here more than once. Jacqueline and Eduardo, Ilse and Leo, Francois, and Israel came by with Teo. On Friday Jim and Irunu were here. Sofia came on Saturday with her grandmother, Velvet, and her Tia Monica.

You spent Wednesday at Nina's while our air conditioner was reinstalled and the ducts cleaned. On Thursday you and your Mom went to visit Enrique's office. On Saturday afternoon we visited Tito and Baby's house. Then on Sunday we had lunch at Nina's and your Grandpa baked bread in the afternoon. Jim and Irunu and Fafa helped evaluate his efforts.

Irunu brought you a basket of books to start off your library. You received several new outfits, earrings, a bib from the Carribean, and your "Angel de la Guarda" which Monica brought from Italy.

All in all it was a busy but happy week.

You seem to thrive on all the attention and are becoming more and more sociable each day.

We heard that the ship bringing your furniture had arrived on Friday, but we won't see the boxes until next week. We did get your little green rocking chair set up, so you have a familiar place to nap. Things are slowly taking shape.

July 20-26