The other day Cora, held out her cup and said plain as day, “I want más”. I wish I could capture her saying this because I think it’s hilarious, BUT it was my first evidence she is learning some Spanish, albeit more like Spanglish.

For those of you saying, oh wow Cora’s in a Spanish immersion school, hold your horses. Her language school is her g-fab mama busting out the limited Spanish she learned in a couple of semesters of Spanish 101 at Rice U, her old Vistas textbook, Bing translator and translate.google.com. I’m sometimes a little embarrassed at this hodge-podge manner of language education, it’s not like I have some huge body of evidence that says learning a second language is so valuable for development, so who cares if it’s broken and grammatically incorrect! But it’s kind of fun because I’m relearning a lot of Spanish I’d lost (or perhaps never knew) and it’s hopefully keeping my brain a little more spry as the new baby tries to consume all my cognitive faculties.

Here’s a shot from Mother’s Day. What gifts I have been given already…