Vato has reached his 12th birthday. As arthritis and age have both set in, no longer can he jump up onto the kitchen table to grab a chicken nugget. He now needs to be carried up the stairs at bedtime and his walk to the school bus stop and back easily takes 20 minutes. I've started calling him, "El oso torpe" or lumbering bear. But he still has the sweet style and studly good looks of a Papi Chulo. ☺

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