TEN-YEAR-OLD Elijah Soto-Sims is rocking back and forth on a dining chair, fidgeting, giggling with his brother, eight-year-old Malik Soto-Sims. “Malik, stop making faces. You’re making him laugh,” his mother, Christal Sims, says. “It’s his birthday today, and they just had cake and ice cream and all the goodies,” she elaborates.
