Saturday, April 4, 2009

Words of a bilingual 2 year old

I just have to write about some of the great things Judah says right now. After all, if I don't write them down soon, I'm bound to forget some of them before he even turns 3!
So here we go:

1) Judah often touches my boobs and says "leche de E-i" - Levi's milk. Cracks me up-he's totally right!
2) I LOVE this next one - so sweet. When he sees my rosary or if I'm wearing my miraculous medal (which has the image of the Virgin Mary on it) he holds it and says "jesus mami". Yes baby boy, that is Jesus' mommy!
3) His first 5 word sentence, complete with subject verb agreement was IN ENGLISH! Took me completely by surprise. I tried to take a bottled water away from him and he said to me "no mami this is mine"! WOW-his English lessons with his cousins are going well.
4) He still continues to call Stevie "papi" when talking about him and "ee-ee" when talking to him.
5) When he farts, he stops what he is doing, laughs, raises his eyebrows and says "poo poo"!
6) He LOVES to say his vowels in Spanish.....a, e, i, o, u. Lately I've been telling him the little rhyme that goes with it and he laughs (a, e, i, o, u, el burro sabe más que ). He also likes the English letters "A" and "R". Not sure why...

Little by little Stevie and I are getting better at deciphering Judah's language. It is a bit of a challenge because when he uses new words we have to decide if he is saying something in English or Spanish. He will often choose the word in English if it sounds easier to say to him. Although his Spanish vocabulary and comprehension is much more extensive than that of his English, he English vocabulary is increasing little by little. Some of those words/phrases include the following : mine, ball, thank you, ok, shoe, star, cookie, tickle, hot dog, car, let's go, and some of his letters and numbers.

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