Manuel is SO MUCH happier than last week. As you can see in the picture- he was pretty sad. He could barely walk and was having lots of pain from his skin graft.
Now he is able to ride a bike and do all his therapy and it doesn't hurt. He can bend his knee 120% which is EXCELLENT!
He loves listening tomusic. I bought two Spanish CDs for him. A Child's Bible Songs and Alex Rodriguez. Manuel requested Spanish Christian Music. He seems to prefer my tobyMac, though. He calls it "C.D. muy rapido" and goes around singing lines from it, thathe doesn't understand.
He now will ask for food if he's hungry and ask for medicine if he hurts or is itchy. He also asks to borrow my CD. He can make his own corn tortillas (even though it's the 'woman's job' )
He LOVES the Star wars movies. Infact, we are renting SW6 tinight for him to watch. We have a few, but some are on VHS and don;t have the Spanish. So we rent the DVD so he can listen toit in Spanish.
He pretends to use "The Force" to change traffic lights.
Sometimes he talks to me and gets frustrated. Poor Kid. I do know a LOT more Spanish than I used to, though. (which was none). Most tiimes he can get me to understand, sometimes he doesn't and gets upset and tells me "Yes you DO understand me!".. well, he just says "KIMBERLY SI COMPRENDO!!" but I think that's what he's conveying...
and sometimes I realy do- well, once I remember what the word he used meant. Sometimes Ihave to search mymemory back befor a word comes tome.
I like how he says my oldest son's name. His name is Gavin. Manuel says "Gabi".. well, he almost says the final 'n', but it usually just sounds like Gabby. He spells it with a b, as well. Though Gavin has shown him manytimes it has a v. He thinks of Vs and Bs as interchangable. Or actually, he sees them BOTH as Bs.
He has been working to earn money. He has over 1,000 lipera (is that the spelling of their currency??)
He is good at math. But like a normal kid, he never wants to do school. And like a boy he loves to burn things with the magnifying glass!
He swears our boy cat is a girl and the girl cat is a boy. It makes Connor mad. I think that is why Manuel contiues to tell Connor his cat is really a girl.
I need to go read what he wrote today. If babelfish works..... I actually think I figures most of it out myself.
This is what he wrote:
1. Connor y Gabin estan en una fiesta.
2. Brian esta tomando foto.
3. Tambien esta la amiga de Brian.
4. Kimberly esta sosteniedo la camera.
5. connor le esta pegando a la piρata
6. los amigos de los muchachos etsan viendo.
7. La piρata esta en el arbor.
8. el arbor es de color verde
9. un muchachos esta can una pelota de basket boll
10. Brian, Kimberly, Gabin, Connor, y los amigos estan feliz.
most of the words I know, some I 'get the drift of' and some I guessed becuase I know what the picture was.
Don't forget to read my other blog from today:
Our School Science from This Morning. |