Marco playing basketball with "Snap" Hunter

Our friends Crystal and Jimmy came over the other day for a visit and Marco took the opportunity to show "Snap" his moves. Snap is an American basketball player who is playing this year for the Murcia team. We met him and his wife last year and just love them.

Marco is in that stage of his life where he finds everything fasinating and is starting to find out what he really likes and dislikes.. so far we know he loves soccer, he likes judo but I think could do without it, he is starting to really love guitar and piano is still a joy, but lately he has been very interested in basketball. For his birthday he asked for a basketball, that is all he said.

Well, as you can see from the video he has a long way to go.. you can view more pics in the December album.

Marco is officially an Orange Belt in Judo

Just a quick note to announce that Marco is officially an orange belt in Judo. He is so proud. He loves going to his judo lessons which he will have a break from now in the summer but hopefully next year he will begin again and go for his green belt. (I think its green next, if anyone knows for sure let me know).

Marco remembered he knows how to swim

Although it was not very sunny today but very windy Marco wanted to go swimming. The day was in between sun and clouds and he just kept looking out of the window to see if there was anyone in the pool, but nothing. Every few minutes he would check and see until finally I heard the yelling "Sofia, Sofia is in the deep end of the pool" "Mama, Mama hurry, hurry we need to go downstairs" and so we did. The water was freezing but that didn't stop him and he jumped right in..

At first he was a little hesitant and wasn't sure if he remembered how to swim. He held on tight to the edge until, he finally realized, hey I float.. yippeee.....then little by little, the same reason I was forced to take him to the pool (Sofia), became the same reason others started coming down. Marco saw Sofia swimming, Cristina saw Marco swimming, Emma saw Cristina swimming, Maria saw Emma swimming and so on and so on until the entire urbanization of neighbors was downstairs hoping their kids would not jump in to the freezing cold water.

All kids went in and swam for a little while but came out frozen, except Marco that swam for about an hour and a half until I had to take him out when his lips were blue...

Marco's first Soccer Match

Marco had his first soccer (here it is called futbol) match. His school called El Faro against another school team. He woke up at 7:30 am, dressed and ready to go..the game did not start until 10 am. He was so excited. The game was great, although they lost 1 to 2, but if you ask Marco how the game was he would tell you that his team one. He is not a great loser, the poor guy loves to always win and hasn't realized that sometimes in life we can't always win. Either way, we had a great time. Isabella cheered her brother on and then we went to the beach and had a great day.

you can view all the pictures here Marco's first Futbol Game