Our first friend!

Today was the first day we went and did something outside of our apartments with a new friend!  She is a little girl named Laura who is the same age as Caleb (born in the month of July, too!), and lives right across the hall from our apartment.  She and her 'nana' (nanny) Gloria, as they call them here, went with us to a park nearby.  Every outing we have had in these first ten days has been very slow and tedious, with Caleb usually lagging behind.  Not today.  He was running ahead of us in the way he runs when he is excited.  I think he was so excited to be going somewhere with a friend, even though he didn't actually play all that much with her once at the park.

There were three other kids at the park who were running and playing chase and he quickly joined them and was having a blast with them.  He was quickly picking up on some of the words he heard them saying in Spanish, and trying to repeat 'corre! corre!' (run, run) when they said it.  I loved seeing him have so much fun with kids he couldn't even communicate with and listening to the things they were saying.