It really changed Alejandro's world to have Dante mobile. Gone are the days when he could just scoot back to get away from Dante's prying fingers. But he's handled the adjustment really well. Dante will crawl into his lap and use Alejandro as a crutch to pull himself up. Alejandro is very patient and will hold still for a while so Dante doesn't fall. Eventually he gets bored and will try to wiggle away from Dante's death grip. I've only had to break up one fight so far over a sippy cup. Alejandro's vocab is still growing by leaps and bounds. He developed a bit of a stutter so off we went to the speech therapist. His type of "speech disfluency" usually goes away by 3 and 1/2 but we were given a list of other speech patterns to watch for that would indicate a more lasting issue. He's become quite the little daredevil and we've had to establish lists of rules for different activities which he recites for Dante.
Alfonso has become fully integrated at work -- which translates into crazy busy! We are both taking Hebrew classes at the community college (but on different nights.) Hebrew is just like English except that there's a different set of characters for the alphabet, different sounds, different grammar, is written right to left and they leave out the symbols for the vowels in printed text. So basically what they have in common is the lack of consistent rules and a bunch of words that aren't pronounced phonetically. Alfonso has to go for training in Austin for a couple weeks, so the boys and I will be headed to Ohio during that time. Alfonso will come for a week as well. Anyhow, our flights are setup June 16 through July 7.
We enjoyed our visit with Alfonso's mother and hit a few of the tourist spots in Oregon -- Multnomah Falls, the tulip festival and the beach. We'll have to hit the rest on her next visit.
Love always,
debi
