Important call

We talked to the girls today (for the first time). It was Edis' birthday and we wanted to wish her a "feliz cumpleaños¨. They all sounded very polite, they kept calling Mercedes ¨Señora¨, but were quick to call me ¨papi¨. Maybe that´s because of her administrative voice. Anyway they were tentative but excited about talking to us. They didn´t know what to say , but neither did we, and then of course I could say even less because my Spanish left my brain. The three older girls´ voices sounded very much the same (Yesica´s sounded a little younger), but Mary

Sucena´s voice sounded much younger. They have a bit of raspiness in their voices. Mirellen Crisitna seems to prefer Mirellen (Martin family folks will need to practice this).

We tried to explain that there were presents coming for the two birthday girls and photo albums for all of them soon. It sounds as though they are not celebrating the kids´birthdays (Edis said that she was studying and that there was no cake or sweets to celebrate her birthday). We will have to make up for that when we get there.

We are very happy. We plan to call again next Monday for Yesica´s birthday.

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