Izzy-isms in Espanglish

The other day Isabela caught a live spider.  She said, "I caught spider lips."  She calls anything that looks like a spider or anything fibrous, spider lips.  She grabbed a tissue from the bathroom, smashed the spider with it, and threw it away.  It was great!

Later she painted my face with a clean brush used for blush.  Usually she says she painted me into Dora, or Alicia.  Today she said, "You a pretty girh, mommy."  She doesn't quite get the 'L' pronounced.  It melted my heart.

Spanglish she used today alone:
Manana my birthday party!
Tu be nice a mi.
Es mi platano (but really it was a half-deflated globo)
Viene bebe dinosaurio... y VIENE BEBE VENADO!  CORRE!!
   Evidently, baby dinosaur now has an imaginary friend, baby deer.

Our family conversation:
Isabela points to Brandon "Es my daddy."
Me:  El es tu papa?
Isabela: No.  No es papa.
I tell Brandon:  That's news to me.
Me to Isabela:  No es to papa?
Isabela, exasperated:  No!  You guys Forster's!
Me:  Tu eres Forster tambien?
Isabela:  Si!  Soy Forster.

Then we had been in the car for 5 hours, with two crying, hungry children, late at night.  With 1.5 hours still to go, we were on the look out for a McDonald's or anywhere really that the  kids could get out and breathe. After 20 min, we arrived.  When she sees it, Isabela laughs all excited and cries out, "I wanna abrazo a McDonald's!" 

The result

Isabela woke up shortly after I posted last time, about 9:15PM or something.  She didn't go back to sleep until almost 1AM.
Xander woke up at 4:30AM to eat.  I got him back to sleep about 6.  Then Brandon got up to go to work.  They were both up again about 7:30 or so.  Something like that...  the joys :)

But we have slept through the night every night since.  Hooray!

An extra hour?

As many of you know, Utah State played at Hawaii in football last night.  Every time they play in Hawaii, it's a late game... starting at 10PM.  So Brandon stayed up til 2AM to watch it, and when they won, yelled and celebrated!  Yay!!!  Go Aggies!  But, of course, I got to wake up at 1AM, too.  Then Xander woke up at 6, then Isabela, and so on.... 

We ate lunch/dinner with friends so the kids got a late nap.  They both fell asleep at 6.  I can't wake them up.  I've tried, multiple times, including picking them up, talking to them (in which Isabela talks back), etc.  They both just half respond (or half open eyes, in Xander's case), then roll over and sleep again.

I have a feeling we will all be waking up at 3AM for breakfast.