"Cabecita"

Baby Benji continues to be a little bobblehead! He enamors people wherever we go with his head dancing. He seriously does it all day long, and I still get cuted out by it! Here he is with my brother, his namesake, dancing to the beat. He is either going to be a musician, a composer, or a dancer! Or maybe all three! Its funny that my brother is also a musician!

He just turned eight months. He is sitting up, and finally eating some solids--mostly squash and banana. He is more interactive and "talkative". He moves around the floor just from wiggling, but he is not crawling yet!

Piano and Ballet Folklorico

My friend, Danae approached me about teaching her girls ballet folklorico. Although, I haven't taught kids that young before, I was up for the challenge! In exchange, she is teaching Isaac piano lessons.

The dance classroom? my garage! Here are my beautiful students: Tori, Lani, and Sienna. We also have Javier (not my Javi, a much bigger boy), but he was not here the day we took the picture!

When I filmed this video of Isaac, it was at the beginning of his lessons (about two months ago), and since then he has learned so much! He has really taken an interest in it (much more than I imagined!). So, I hope he doesn't ever lose that interest!

Isaac's First Year of School

Isaac completed an entire year of Pre-K at Lantrip Elementary. Here he is pictured with his teacher, Ms. Anna Aguilar. He got off to a rocky start, but he ended up LOVING school, his teachers, and all his buddies. He would come home everyday and re-enact his school day. He learned to read and write in Spanish, so we are working on English literacy this summer. We are excited that Isaac will be attending kindergarten at the same school but in the magnet program for environmental science: one of his favorite interests! It is ranked very high amongst all of the Houston area elementary schools, so we feel very blessed! Way to go Isaac!

Abuelito's Visit

My eighty-seven year old grandfather came to visit in April and stayed for six weeks. The boys got attached to him, especially Javi, who followed him everywhere! He made a kite for the boys, which we were able to fly a couple of times before it got stuck in a very tall tree! We really enjoyed his visit and we hope we can go to Guatemala to visit him soon!