al cochino

Kenny hablas a lil' Espanol. At daycare, they like to talk to the kids in a mix of English and Spanish. Which is cool. I feel bad that I can't help reinforce any of that at home (damn you, all those years of French!), but it's nice to know he's working on his foreign language skills. Besides, let's be honest here, it's probably a lot more helpful these days to speaky the Spanish than impress your date at a French restaurant by knowing how to say more than, "Le stylo est sur la table." But I digress.

At daycare, when Mr. K's underpants are wet or dirty, they refer to it as being, "Cochino." This means, "filthy or disgusting." At home, Overboard likes to throw that around, mainly because the reaction she gets is pretty amusing.

"Kenny? Are your underpants dry and clean? Or are you cochino?"
"No cochino. No!"
"Cochino? Un paquito?"
"NO CACHINO! NOOOOOOO!"*

I'm totally waiting for that moment when he goes all Ricky Ricardo and just starts rattling off angry Spanish at us.

Oh, my little, Babalu.


*Quite often, unfortunately, the answer is actually, "Si, cochino," but he hates to fess up to it. Ay caramba.