Well, we live in a different world since the last time I wrote in here. Way too much has been happening in our family and the world, and while it's been bad stuff, it has brought some blessings.
COVID-19 became a serious threat around the end of March so all schools were closed. While Belén and Matías have been doing school online pretty successfully, preschool for you stopped pretty abruptly. The teachers from Puentes made a few videos that we watched, but other than that, you have had a lot of free time to play at home! You still had your music class, online of course. But now you are even finished with that until the fall. Since I have had my hands pretty full helping Matías with schoolwork and the basics of keeping our home running, we've been pretty relaxed about educational stuff. Ironically, you often ask to do math problems, or for me to ask you an equation like, "What's 4+5?" And you initiated reading by yourself, as well. You are still at a basic stage of reading, but your brain is definitely motivated and working hard and you're doing great. It has really surprised me. You are also at about the same level of reading in Spanish. Papi has been reading the "Nacho" book with you each night. So exciting. You are pretty excited about it, too.
One thing I wanted to make sure was recorded is how much you have wanted to pray. There have been weeks where you volunteer to pray at breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Lately, Matías and Belén only get a turn once in a while. I'm not sure where your strong desire to pray has come from, but I'll keep on encouraging it.
Lucy and Freddy are your favorite toys these days. I had to repair Freddy's eye this last week because he was just playing so much and he's had a few baths recently. He is a potatohead, according to you, and he has his own language and he can be a little mischievous and likes to participate in FaceTime conversations with your aunt and uncles.
Grandma Judd had a bad fall in early February (the 6th) and you were able to visit her and make her a special drawing or two while she was in the hospital. Unfortunately, she passed away when her heart stopped in the morning shortly after she had woken up on April 8. We weren't able to visit her for a few weeks before she passed away because of the pandemic and the rehabilitation nursing home where she was weren't allowing visitors to protect the residents/patients. It made Grandma really sad to to not have visitors, but I'm glad you got to see her and make her special get well cards. When Grandpa came over for dinner on the night that she passed away you approached him and asked him if he was happy or sad that Grandma had died. He said a little of both. Really sad because he was going to miss her very much, but happy that her hip and heart were better and that she could be with her parents in the spirit world. It was a sweet conversation. At her viewing before the burial the following week, I think you eventually got enough courage to approach her casket. Not too close, though.
COVID-19 became a serious threat around the end of March so all schools were closed. While Belén and Matías have been doing school online pretty successfully, preschool for you stopped pretty abruptly. The teachers from Puentes made a few videos that we watched, but other than that, you have had a lot of free time to play at home! You still had your music class, online of course. But now you are even finished with that until the fall. Since I have had my hands pretty full helping Matías with schoolwork and the basics of keeping our home running, we've been pretty relaxed about educational stuff. Ironically, you often ask to do math problems, or for me to ask you an equation like, "What's 4+5?" And you initiated reading by yourself, as well. You are still at a basic stage of reading, but your brain is definitely motivated and working hard and you're doing great. It has really surprised me. You are also at about the same level of reading in Spanish. Papi has been reading the "Nacho" book with you each night. So exciting. You are pretty excited about it, too.
One thing I wanted to make sure was recorded is how much you have wanted to pray. There have been weeks where you volunteer to pray at breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Lately, Matías and Belén only get a turn once in a while. I'm not sure where your strong desire to pray has come from, but I'll keep on encouraging it.
Lucy and Freddy are your favorite toys these days. I had to repair Freddy's eye this last week because he was just playing so much and he's had a few baths recently. He is a potatohead, according to you, and he has his own language and he can be a little mischievous and likes to participate in FaceTime conversations with your aunt and uncles.
Grandma Judd had a bad fall in early February (the 6th) and you were able to visit her and make her a special drawing or two while she was in the hospital. Unfortunately, she passed away when her heart stopped in the morning shortly after she had woken up on April 8. We weren't able to visit her for a few weeks before she passed away because of the pandemic and the rehabilitation nursing home where she was weren't allowing visitors to protect the residents/patients. It made Grandma really sad to to not have visitors, but I'm glad you got to see her and make her special get well cards. When Grandpa came over for dinner on the night that she passed away you approached him and asked him if he was happy or sad that Grandma had died. He said a little of both. Really sad because he was going to miss her very much, but happy that her hip and heart were better and that she could be with her parents in the spirit world. It was a sweet conversation. At her viewing before the burial the following week, I think you eventually got enough courage to approach her casket. Not too close, though.
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