Toddler Spanglish

Lets be honest. Magdalena is still 3 years old. She has not turned 4 yet. She is understanding spanish more and more every day. I ask her questions in spanish and she responds in English mostly, but sometimes in spanish. Today as I had her and Ronan line up so I could cortar their nails I was explaining the word "fila" and how their teacher might say "haz un fila" and that means they should line up. Her eyes got big and lit up. She began to sing "Fila, fila, fila por favor". I was excited to hear her sing it and said "Oh your teacher must sing that when it is time to make a line" "Nonononono" Maggie responded, taken back a little. "Thats what we sing when it is time to go out and we are waiting for Fila to come. She's a girl in my school." Maybe some day she will believe me.

Ronan is very proud that he knows three languages "English, Spanish and sign language." He shared his dream of being a priest and talking in Spanish at Dulce Nombre, the church we often attend.  He wanted to say the prayer that they say at school at our dinner table. I suppose I should learn a thank you song in spanish to teach them!

Jacqueline at 10 months old has one bottom left tooth. She can stand up, but often just does baby squats. She gets car sick. As I started to put her in to her car seat this afternoon she immediately began to arch her back cry and get out. I said to her "Tenemos que ir a a escuela para buscar a Ronan y Maggie" and she relaxed and said a mumbly babbley "Roro" and let me put her in her carseat. She loves playing with tools. She uses her toothbrush to hook into her silicone banana chew toy to pick it up. She gets adorably frustrated when she fails to pick it up and cries out having a mini-fit but then goes right back to focus and try again. 

Today we sang and danced to "Que bonito esta vida" as well as our usual lineup of Spanish disney songs. Vamos a ver lo que nos lleva tomorrow.