Katy recently started repeating English words, phrases, and sentences more frequently, which is entertaining because Spanish remains her dominant language. When Katy says Happy Birthday, she does not pronounce the H in happy and she pronounces the rth in birthday like a soft r in Spanish. The result is something like "Appy Burrdaye." More recently, Katy heard Chris say, "Oh-uh, Spaghetti-ohs," when something fell. Katy repeated the phrase as "Uh-oh, es-paghetti-ohs." Chris found this particularly humorous because, in his words, "it sounded like my mom."
Seeing Katy speak English is both exciting and anxiety inducing. I want her to speak English and I know that by the time she is ready to start school, she will speak it more fluently no matter how much we emphasize Spanish. At the same time, however, I fear that by learning English Katy will lose her ability and desire to use Spanish. In short, I fear that this is the beginning of the end.
For now, all I can do is try to enjoy the changes as they come, which isn't as hard when Katy says things like es-phaghetti. And I can start letting Katy watch TV...but only in Spanish. I haven't given up hope altogether.
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