Lilian,
It’s possible you said your first Spanish word today! Woo hoo!
I’d like to say I had something to do with it – but no. My Spanish is the equivalent to someone that can only play chop sticks on the piano. Lame.
Credit goes to your amazing babysitter Gabby from Mexico who talks Spanish to you three days a week for eight hours a day and has been for the past six months. So far you can respond to various Spanish words such as Dónde está (where is – this or that) or give me a ‘beso’ (kiss) and you take your hand in a full number five and smush it against your face and hold it there (don’t have the ‘blowing’ a kiss part down quite yet which is actually very cute).
We have plenty of Spanish/English picture books which we read to you on a regular basis. This morning I was going through them with you. When I got to the photo of a little girl you smiled and pointed to the girl and very clearly said ‘Nina’ (niña).
So much of this early language stuff is so questionable – did you actually say that or am I hoping you did? – but I’m rooting for YES – yes you said it and for that I say – muy bien Lili!
It’s amazing how quickly they pick it up when they are little. Olivia was totally fluent in Spanish by the age of 2, but then within three months of being with an English-speaking nanny, she completely lost it. I THINK she still understands it, but I’m never sure, whereas before I was certain she did. Fingers crossed for a bilingual preschool!