forgetting to use Spanish, I teach him a couple new expressions, praise him lavishly for
his efforts and then he’s on a roll again!
Even though he’s still addressing me mostly in English when his Dad is around, I barely
have to remind him to speak in Spanish when we are alone. He seems to enjoy the
challenge of creating sentences all of his own and you can see him thinking hard,
searching for words to add to them. Whenever he’s stumped by a particular word, he
either asks me for it or finds a substitute of sorts. Like the other day, when he couldn’t
find a way to describe “crusty morning-eyes” and asked me: “ Mama. What are esas
bolitas I have en los ojos when me levanto? (What are those little balls I have in the eyes
when I get up?) After I rephrased the whole question again in Spanish, I answered that
they were called “legañas”. He went then on a rambling monologue about what legañas
were for, and used the word 6 or 7 times before I finally steered him out of his bed and I
subtly changed subjects.
That’s one word I won’t praise him for again, otherwise, knowing my son, we’ll have
“legañas” for breakfast, lunch and dinner several days in a row!
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