hard to believe that we have been home a month

Wow- in my excitement to post pictures yesterday, I totally forgot that Little Bug came home 4 weeks ago yesterday. It seems like yesterday, but at the same time, it seems like he has always been here and been my son.

We are doing fine, really, I see such a difference when I look back at what we were both like that first week. I am settling into my role as Momma- I feel confident on most things and I am willing to change directions if need be whereas at the beginning there was only one way to do things. For example, when I came home, we were going to stay in for 2 weeks, but that quickly crashed and burned as Little Bug needs more people in his day and so do I.

It is interesting to hear myself with him now. At the beginning, I tried to stay with my limited Spanish with my conversation with him or at least for anything important. One example, when I needed him to stay in one spot because I was unlocking the car, or doing something where I need to know exactly where he was at all times, I would point to spot on the wall and say "manos aqui" so his hands would stay in that spot. It did work. Now, I can just say "manos" and point and he will stand there. I use a few more command type words for things, but more and more, I give him the English phrase and the Spanish phrase. I want him to hold on to his Spanish, which I know will not happen given that I am single parent and I should only speak 1 language to him, but I am going to try as hard as I can to keep phrases in his life, so that he does not loose it all.
Little Bug is clearly working on English sounds now, his babbling sounds like English instead of Spanish and I know that I will never be able to keep his Spanish pronunciation of words. I hear it already in the word TRAIN. When he came home, it was clearly TREN, now it somewhere between TRAIN and TREN. In a few months, it will be TRAIN. So as we read certain books I try to say TRAIN as TREN so it stays with him. I want Spanish to stay familiar to him so that when he starts language classes, hopefully it will come back. We watch Sesame Street in Spanish and English, we have watched a few shows from Discovery Kids in Spanish- memories of my stays in Guatemala come flooding back. Ah, the days in the hotel, when Discovery Kids was all that calmed him down. If I keep this up, the sounds will be familiar even if he looses the context of the words.

Oh well, I have rambled tonight. Pictures tomorrow.

Love to you all,
Momma Bug