Verano!

The boys are done with school for the summer (verano).  I'm really proud of how well they did adjusting to so much this last year.  Just after the babies were born last august, the boys started in a spanish school.  Luckily, they were already great spanish speakers before they started but it was still a big change from the great American on base school they went to in Japan.  Caden has always been really well adjusted and this change seemed to not phase him whatsoever.  He made some quick friends and also improved from his chicken scratch handwriting to beautiful cursive. Max had just finished kindergarten before coming here but because of his age, they had him skip 1st grade.  So he went from just learning to write and the very basics of reading to 2nd grade all in Spanish.  It was a tough change for all of us, but he ended up doing a great job and became one of his teacher's favorite students.  Jake was in the four year old class and had Señora Inma as his teacher.  She was so great to him and even adored his little stubborn streak.  She said that he was one of the top in his class.  He loves to learn and is doing a great job learning to read.  These pictures are at their end of the year performance. Each class put on a great show.  Because of the Spanish time schedule the program didn't start until 8:00 p.m.  (Our kid's bedtime).  Jake's class performed at 9:15 p.m. Max and Caden were after 11:00 p.m.  The party ended at 11:45p.m.   Crazy-  Anyway here are the pictures for now.  We have some great video coming soon too. 

In Spain when a child loses a tooth, a little mouse named Ratoncito Perez comes, takes the tooth away, and leaves some money.  No tooth fairies here.  Jake's class all dressed up as the mouse and danced.  Yes, Jake danced.  Not as big and out there as the other kids, but there were some movements and I was proud.

His toothbrush fell off and it was really important to fix it during the performance.

With Señora Inma

Jake and his buddy Jaime

Max and his BF Pablo.  Pablo was in a lot of the skits.  Max said he'll participate in more next year.

Am I in trouble with the girls?  Look at these girls smiling at Caden!  That is a boy behind him from his class probably feeling jealous and trying to get some attention.

Max looking thrilled

Now we are just counting down the days until we can go home to America and spend the summer with our family.  A couple more weeks!