our growing boy...

Today (7/26) was the first time Jadon ever ate a (quite sizable) WHOLE fish burrito by himself at La Costa, a restaurant we frequent nearby for its yummy grilled fish dishes & its discount cards.

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in case i never entered this one in february, it is abundantly clear to us that jadon's Spanish quickly outstripped his anemic Chinese abilities early on after starting at Norton.not long after moving to nsaa,they were playing a number game at Chinese club, & the die rolled three. wanting to b the first call out the number in Chinese correctly, jadon darted up from his seat with his hand raised and yelled 'tres!!!' Wide-eyed with embarrassment, he immediately sat down with his 1/2-smiling mouth covered! /!que chistoso!/

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today in karate, the sensei had said a few words to some of the class in Spanish, then went on to ask the whole class how many exercises (pushups?) they did. he went down the row with each one answering, 'six' 'seven' 'eight' 'nine'... then got to Jadon, who ('with perfect timing' the sensei recalled) said 'diez.' at once the whole class erupted in laughter. (we got this story later after the fact from 2 sources: the sensei himself & from a classmate's grandparent -- 'your son is so cute!'. how we wish we'd been there!)

(not so) happy memory!

Earlier today while the family was in the car, Jadon & Evangelina had a spat during which each had scratched the other.  Both were rebuked, called to apologize to the other, & encouraged to seek God in being kinder as a sibling.  Both were also told that they needed a swat on their bottoms for what they did, to underline what we explained as the seriousness of sin, but we also told Jadon (as Evanglina's attention turned elsewhere) that it was likely that we would let Evangelina's spanking "slide" because we weren't in a place to stop the car, & because she is so young, if we spanked her much later she would not be able to make the connection between the "crime" & the "punishment."  Realizing that he WOULD be receiving his spank when we arrived at our destination (in about 10 minutes), he murmured, "I wish I didn't have memory."