- met Rain and Bo at the park-he was upside down on the jungle gym at the time. Carlos is fascinated by how things work. He is always taking things apart and putting them back together. He dreams of being an architect-or an ant hill farmer. He likes to think that the big parade held every year on March 17th is for his birthday and not St. Patrick’s Day. He is very funny and his friends find themselves laughing whenever he is around.

baseball-especially the New York Mets, his fish tank, making people laugh, being bi-lingual-he speaks English and Spanish fluently, his baby sister Maria, his black “high top’ sneakers and his Mets baseball cap.

changing his baby sister Maria’s diapers, when his parents pay too much attention to Maria and not to him, when his mother combs his dark, wavy hair, taking baths.

"I think there is a better way"