Los Abuelitos Arrive!

Grandma and Grandpa have arrived! During our Skype call two nights before he arrived, Jean asked what all we'd be doing during his visit. The mention of my parents coming to visit made him very happy. On Thursday, before we even left the airport, he asked when los abuelitos would arrive. You should have seen his face when he heard it would be on Sunday!

Mass in English was nice. He was a little concerned on the way about not being able to understand it, but I let him read along with the readings in Spanish on iBreviary on my iPhone, and he followed along with the rest of the rite in English with the missalette. He was excited about getting to receive Holy Communion.

After communion he asked if we could go the pool after lunch. This is probably his most frequent question - it gets asked multiple times a day every day! The day before our friend Michelle Wissman (who is fluent in Spanish) had offered to teach him to swim, and he was excited to begin. Plus we had told him the pool would be giving out free hot dogs and hamburgers today which was also a cause of great excitement.

He was a very eager student! It will take him a while to learn to coordinate the arms, legs, and breathing, but he wanted to learn freestyle, backstroke, and breaststroke all in one day!

He also learned to play Marco Polo today. He liked being tagged so he could be "it" - it was funny to watch him purposely put himself in arms reach. It took him a little while to understand that he had to keep his eyes closed when it was his turn though!

It's amazing how easily he plays with the other children even with the language barrier. They just seem to figure things out. The English-speaking kids seem to think he's interesting because he doesn't speak much English!