MONDAY FEB 26-

When I got to the Hospital, Manuel was all smiles.

He cried at the hospital when he was saying good bye to his friend's mom.

He SOBBED after that when we had to changehis dressings. It was his first time without any pain meds, they wanted to see how it'd go. He bled a lot and cried and sobbed.

He slept on the way to our house.

He wsa very sad for a few hours. Just sat and sniffled. He didn't wand to eat or play or anythng. Whichis very understandable.

Shortly after dinner I got out a mango and started eating it. Gavin asked for some. Ki asked for some.So I gave them some. Connor walks in and tells me that Manuel might want some. So I whisper how to ask in Spanish and Connor asked Manuel, he ened up gobbling half of my Mango. Then I told Connor how to ask if he wanted more and he did. So I gave him his own own mango. It was the first smile at our house.

Manuel and is Mango.

After Mangos He asked us to play UNO (just brought the cards to us. I need to get him talking. I can understand 'Juego'. (play)I use that word with him enough, I'd think he'd know I know that word.).

Then the boys got the soccer ball out and had fun doing head bounce passes back and forth. They had Manuel laughing pretty well.

They also went to the bedroom at some point and got Manuel talking to them. Teaching them words and how to say numbers and they taught him. They tried to get him to say 'cat', but it came out like 'hot' with a small /h/. He laughed and handed he stuffed tiger t me and askes me to say it in english. WOW, that was a first. he has never asked for an English word  before!

So it was a slow, sad start, but he seemed to warm up the boys (and to the mango and coconut) quickly.