Kids say the darndest things . . . in Spanish . . .

My children are obsessed with spanish. They have cousins who speak Spanish almost exclusively; and they think that since they watch Dora the Explorer they are also fluent Spanish speakers. We will go to a family gathering and Drew will talk to Kimball and say, "Hola." Or he will try to interject spanish words that he knows into his sentences as if he is really helping Kimball understand what he is saying.

Ada does it too. Just yesterday I was cleaning upstairs and Ada kept saying "Para!" to me. She wanted me to stop cleaning and play Dora people with her. It was so funny. It took me a second to understand what she was saying. But she meant it! She kept saying it over and over. And if she doesn't know how to say something in spanish, she will just make it up. She will say . . . "Do you know how you say hippo in spanish?" And then she will make up some word.

Hayden is no exception. Just the other day me and Lamon were talking to someone in the garage and Ada and Hayden were playing inside. All of a sudden we overhear Hayden say to Ada, "Ada . . . I know how you say underwear in spanish."
We all stopped talking to hear what he would say.
He said, "Undies."
Funny kid.

Perhaps with an Uncle, 2 Aunts, and a Father who all speak spanish . . . maybe we should actually teach them how to REALLY speak it . . . since they obviously think they already can.