When we lived in China, we went out of our way to find a bar that was showing the Super Bowl and even missed a half a day of work (on Monday) to partake in what we thought was our duty as Americans to watch the popular game.  It has not taken much time back in the US for our excitement level for American football’s biggest day to plummet to the ranks of the noise.  For this reason and also because we do not have a tolerance level built up to more than a dozen kids in a house at once, we decided to decline the Super Bowl party invite we received and have dinner with friends instead.

We had our friends Hernán and Alejandra along with their three kids, Hernán (cito or junior), Bruno and Gisel over for an Argentine-inspired meal.  In case you are wondering, pretty much every time we have had someone over lately, the menu is Argentine as we are still perfecting the meat on the new grill.  Andy did all of the preparation on our side while I took care of Belén.  Even though Belén is teething and not what I would define as “easy to please”, I still got the good end of that deal since it involved a much needed afternoon nap.

Andy did a fantastic job of preparing the meal and everyone one enjoyed it.  It was nice that we actually finished the amount of meat that he cooked since usually so much goes to waste.  We are still figuring out the right amount to cook.  Hernáncito and Bruno are quite the carnevours so that helped.

The kids (especially Gisel) were really excited to see Belén as they had not seen her since she was probably less than three months old.  Alejandra enjoyed her as well and gave Little B a good dose of Spanish which reminded me I really need to start being better about speaking to her.

After dinner, Andy lit a fire in the firepit and prepared the coals for s’mores, while the kids watched The Goonies and I breastfed and put Belén down to bed.

Gisel turned out to be a marshmallow queen, so we were calling her (in Spanish), La Reina de Bombón (reina = queen; bombón = marshmallow).

I think she must have eaten at least five marshmallows two of which were part of a full blown s’more.  She also wanted to prepare the s’mores for her older brothers…it was pretty cute.

Her hair ribbons even served as a perfect diadem fit for “La Reina.”

It was a fun night but it left me craving one more day to our weekend…  Anyone else not ready to go back to work today?

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