The world through the eyes of a 6 year old

The years go by so quickly, and I am guessing this is a good thing. Luca is 6 now and I think, wow he is not a little boy anymore, this thing that I tell him all the time and we tell everybody, it means something. I can hardly hold him, and we can have pretty reasonable conversations, not baby-like conversations, he can reason with me, or try to, and it is a bit easier for the two of us. Still once in a while I can get a bit desperate with things that he does and I recall all the hard days when he was younger. How hard it is at times to educate a child and to not get mad. Those moments don't happen very frequently anymore, and in a way I feel nostalgic that I don't have a little baby with me anymore. But on the sunny side, he is a delight to talk to, he is funny and comes up with ideas that are still within a child's free state of mind. I love it. He keeps on asking me how old was he when he was a baby, and telling people that he was very funny (because I show him videos of himself), he keeps on talking about the Thanksgiving "feast", he says lets pretend we have lots of people here so we can make a feast. So cute, I guess it is the way he is discovering the world. He tells people how when he was little he got new implants and he had to wear a big bandage around his head. He explains kids that his implants help him hear, that when he doesn't have them on he can't hear and that when he goes to sleep he doesn't wear them either. In those moments, he makes me very proud, great self advocacy skills, and then I see the mom of the kid he has been talking too and she is horrified mouthing "I'm sorry" to me, when on the other hand I think it is wonderful that her child would ask and that Luca can explain. The world without taboos or social complexes, so nice, I wish we had more of that in our lives as adults.

Los anhos pasan tan rapidamente y bueno supongo que eso es bueno. Luca ya tiene 6 anhos y pienso, jo ya no es un bebe, esto que le digo a todas horas y que el le dice a todo el mundo tiene algo de realidad. A penas lo puedo levantar, y ya podemos tener conversaciones bastante razonables, no como con un bebe, puede razonar, o intentarlo, y es mas facil para los dos. De vez en cuando aun me desespero con cosas que hace y me acuerdo de lo dificil que era cuando era pequenho. Lo dificil que es educar a los ninhos sin enfadarse. Esos momentos ya no pasan a menudo, y en cierto modo, los echo de menos. Pero po suerte, hoy por hoy es un gustazo hablar con el, el divertido, y se le ocurre cada cosa que solo es posible en la mente libre de un ninho. Me encanta. Me pregunta a todas horas que cuantos anhos tenia cuando era bebe, y le cuenta a todo el mundo sobre el "festin" de accion de gracias, dice vamos a imaginarnos que tenemos mucha gente en casa y hagamos un festin. Que mono, debe ser su manera de descubri el mundo. Le dice a mucha gente que cuando era pequenho le pusieron sus implantes nuevos y que tenia que ponerse una benda muy grande en la cabeza. Explica a otros ninhos que sus implantes le ayudan a escuchar, que cuando no los tiene no oye nada y que cuando se va a dormir se los quita. En esos momentos, me siento muy orgullosa de el, que manera de hablar de si mismo, y luego veo a la mama del ninho con el que ha estado hablando diciendome "lo siento" , cuando para mi me parece maravilloso que el ninho pregunte y que Luca pueda explicarle todo. El mundo sin tabues o complejos sociales, que bien estaria, me gustaria que tuvieramos mas de eso en nuestra vida como adultos.

And here is the pictures of Luca during his birthday and also of the power rangers cake that I made him. I used fondant made from scratch, it was fun and most importantly, it was a hit!


Y aqui van las fotos de Luca durante su cumple y tambien de la tarta de power rangers que le hice. Use fondant hecho por mi, lo pase bien y lo mas importante fue todo un exito!