Music, Love, and Spanish

Well we've almost been here one week, and Pete and I are amazed at how much our Spanish has already improved. Daily, we are reminded of words we've forgotten. Pete says that you know you're fluent when you can have full-blown rapid-fire arguments in Spanish, so we've been practicing by having "Non-fights" in Spanish. Example: Today we "argued" about whether we should eat cereal or eggs for breakfast. We ended up just laughing at how bad we are at rapidly conjugating sentences, but with any luck we'll improve.

Tonight we gave our first musical performance for Casa Fe (that's the house for the older kids and the severely challenged kids). Casa Fe has 4 non-special needs kids who are all about five years old. All of the kids seemed to like the music. We sang in English some oldies like "The itsy bitsy spider" and "Amazing Grace." Amazing Grace really calmed the kids down. We invented motions for all of the songs and the kids seem to enjoy following along.

I also wanted to say this for all you single and married women out there: I would like you to know that there is nothing sexier than when a man plays with little kids. Pete spoke of his "second girlfriend" two-year-old Evelin in a previous blog, and let me tell you that watching little Evelin run into his arms immediately; seeing Evelin and Pete play together outside, watching Pete take her in his arms and bring her into a shady spot so she wouldn't get too hot; seeing the absolute adoration and trust in her eyes as they played together....wow it really tugs at my heart. I am so incredibly lucky to be married to such a caring man. It's amazing to me how all the kids seem drawn to Pete. One child at Casa Fe, Vilma, has cerebral palsy and is absolutely in love with Pete. She only has to look at him and she starts cooing and smiling.

More later.
-Tesha

P.S. Correction: Pete said that we went and saw a movie called The Family of the Future...what he meant was "Meet the Robinsons" (he didn't know that's what it was called in English.) It's a good movie and we recommend it.