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| Benji 8 years old! |
On Saturday December 15th, Grandpa and Grandma visited a boy who lives near us in our apartment complex. His name is Fernando Perez. He goes to the same ward that Grandpa and Grandma belong to. He is 7 years old and will turn 8 in June. He will be baptised then. He has a younger brother Diego who is 3 and a 6 month old baby sister. He loves to play outside with other boys in our apartment building. They don't have much grass to play on but they like to play on the steps and in the parking lot. His father plays baseball professionally and Fernando likes baseball. He loves every kind of toy his mother said so we got him a transformer and a kick ball. He was very happy.
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This is Fernando and his mom and little sister. He was a little shy at first. 
But when he got his present, he was excited! He was very happy to get the bright blue bouncy ball and a transformer. He changed the transformer into a car with fast wheels and grandma wanted to play cars with him!
Grandma showed him pictures of all of her grandchildren.
 He liked seeing them. Then he went upstairs and got his baby album and showed it to grandma. He was very talkative.  He told us all about his birth and showed us lots of pictures saying, "Esta estoy yo, esta estoy yo" which means "This is me, this is me..." He got embarrassed showing us the pictures of his baby baths. 
Fernando is holding the card we made with Benji's picture and a little letter written in English to Fernando. He understands some English words but not a lot. Grandma wrote the letter in Spanish for him, too. He did the list of Benji's favorite movies or "peliculas." He knew those words well, like Star Wars and Avengers. The Dominican kids love American movies!
This is Fernando's apartment, right across the way from Grandpa and Grandma's. We were so happy to get to know him. Thank you Benji for sharing your birthday with a new friend in Santiago!
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