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Katie, pictured in the avatar, is now three months shy of being three. Her English has exploded over the last few months, so DH and I have started teaching her other languages. We used some ASL (American Sign Language) with her as a baby, which her daycare also teaches, so it's become our interlingua. I'm working with her on Spanish and DH is doing some German.

Part of our language teaching lessons include just exposure. Now that she's broken in A Little Mermaid --as in literally broken; we're on our second copy of the DVD because the first one got so well loved--we've started watching it with the Spanish language track on instead of the English one.

Thanks to Youtube we have even more language options. One of Katie's new hobbies is to watch the opening credits sequences from her various shows in other languages. Her favorite is the theme for Little Einsteins which she watches in German, Spanish, English, and Japanese. She also requests which title she wants by name and will get very snippy if you load the wrong language. But, as good as her language has become, she still slips occasionally, using the wrong word or coining her own word.

So, we're watching the credit sequences yesterday. We'd just finished viewing the Portugese version, and she starts jumping up and down: "I want to watch another one," she says. "Put on the Japeroni and Cheese."