Airplanes

MEET CUARTO 13

Dona Isabel with some of the boys

Lizandro

Cuarto (means "room") 13 is the room where the little boys live. There are 9 boys, Andres is the youngest at 5 and Misael is the oldest who's about to turn 9, and as you can imagine, I spend quite a lot of time in their room. They are crazy and so cute, and you can't help but love and play with them. Dona Isabel is Cuarto 13's mom. She takes care of them and I absolutely adore her...and so do the boys! They call her "Ma," and I love it.


One day, we showed them how to do the "airplane," where I lay on my back on the floor and lift them up on my feet so they can fly like an airplane (or Superman). I was sad that they had never done that before, so of course I let all 9 of them fly for at least 5 times each! It is very tiring, but all the laughs are completely worth it. They had never done the thing where they hold your hands, crawl up your legs and flip over either, so I taught them how to do that too. Dad would always do that and the airplane with me when I was little, and it made me sad that they don't have dads to play like that with them.