Como?
June 21st, 2008 / posted by Jake
Tyler is obsessed. With what?
It’s not Friends (overrated), Seinfeld, Star Trek (phew again), Desperate Housewives (worst acting ever), Lost (yawn), or even Prison Break (has sucked royally these past couple years). It’s not a reality show (which eliminates 90% of all other possibilities). It’s DORA THE EXPLORER!
Since having served and lived in Holland (aka Netherlands, home of Amsterdam), I was able to learn Dutch. I always thought it would be pretty dope to have my kids learn at least a bit of it so that we could make fun of other people and they wouldn’t understand us. Unfortunately, I haven’t taught him any Dutch which is probably due to the fact that I never have an opportunity to speak it. Except this one time in Tijuana. Ya, of all places… so anyways, thanks to the 8+ hours of Dora he receives daily, Tyler has been learning spanish. He actually uses the word ‘gracias’ now in place of thank you which is interesting but sometimes he switches it up and reverts back to ’shanks’. Either way, the kid is obsessed with Dora and I’ll admit – it drives me crazy at times.
I currently have a laminate card in my wallet on which their birthdays, full names, my anniversary, my age, and other important stuff guys forget about are written. Well I had to make an addition to the laminate by adding lots of spanish words so I can better communicate with my son. Matter of fact we’re going to have to take him out of nursery on Sundays and place him in an “english as a second language” class since the other kids in nursery just stare at him when he speaks espanol to them. Oh and let me not forget about how we sing the hymns in spanish even though our ward is english speaking. Awesome.
When Tyler is not learning spanish from Dora, he is learning how to count numbers. Wait, they count numbers in spanish. Sigh. I guess raising him on Knight Rider and the Cosby Show just won’t be the same with english sub-titles.
I have at least managed (through a translator of course) to convince him to support Barack Obama.
That’s funny.. it was so cute to hear him say, “Gracias.” I can’t believe you would discourage that. Kaitlin bouncing is pretty hilarious. Maybe she’ll be walking soon?
Kaitlin bouncing is too cute. She’s a doll.
Spanish…a really good language to learn since more than half of the jobs in the USA are now being held by Spanish speaking people. We plain ole caucasians are in serious trouble if we ever need to communicate with the working force of America…
Okay, I may have exaggerated a little…
Sorry… I never said I discouraged it (at least that’s not what I was trying to convey through all the sarcasm), I’m all for him communicating, even if its in spanish. In fact, that’s why we taught him (and ourselves) a little ASL in his first months because it allowed us to communicate with him before he knew how to talk which was awesome.
We look forward to the day when Kaitlyn will be walking. She is crawling now so we are back in the mode where we have to ensure everything within a 1-mile radius of her is babies-mouth-proof.
Happy Birthday Lindsey! I hope you have a wonderful day! I miss you!
Love,
Keri