February 16, 2013
Mauro the owner of the property has two grandkids that live nearby. These are Elijah’s first Chilean friends. The boy, Mauro is 6, his little sister, Amanda is 4. They come up to visit often as their mom helps take care of the property. Elijah has learned a bit of Spanish, but hasn’t ventured to begin speaking much yet. Because of the language gap their play is somewhat limited, also owing to the fact that the kids are younger and a bit pestery. However, with some intervention by Achilles or myself they’ve begun to get comfortable together.
The other night the people at the big house, (we live in the small house), had a BBQ. Everyone was enjoying a nice evening, hanging out, drinking good Chilean wine, the kids alternated between being huddled around a phone video game and running around the property. Out of the darkness we heard Elijah’s voice quite firmly “STOP, STOP, STOP… S…. T…. O….. P!”. To no avail, the little boy was pestering him and wouldn’t stop whatever he was doing. Then we heard “PARE PARE PARE P…. A… R….E!”. Whatever was going on stopped.
I asked him later, “How did you know how to tell Mauro stop in Spanish?” “Oh,” he said, “I learned it from the stop sign.”
I love it! It is working!
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| Mauro and Elijah at the park sharing a bike ride |
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| Playing cards on a rainy day |
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| Sunset from our house |
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