Excuse me, what?

Tonight I asked Kira to do something and she turns to me and says "estacupado."  I'm sorry, what????  So she says it again.  Finally, after three tries, I realize she is probably speaking Spanish to me so I ask Cole to translate.  He cannot think of the English translation, but confirms it's Spanish. So I work with him, patiently asking questions.  "Is it a noun or a verb?'  He's four, so I then have to explain what nouns and verbs are...he gets frustrated and tells me "Don't you know?!"  After about five minutes of trying to figure it out he says to me "I know! I know - I remember how to say it in English.  She is saying she's busy!"  I said, "OH!  Esta occupado!"  Yeah, that's what she said, he says.  Like "duh."  My spanish is not that great and then you add a two-year-old's pronunciation to it and I'm clearly doomed...thank goodness we figured it out!  Just another adventure in the Toliver household :-)  Oh, and by the way, I think it's hysterical that my two year old told me she's too busy to do something!  Already sounding like a teenager...what are we in for?! 

Schooled by a 4 year old

Tonight after I got done bathing the kids (typically Dave's job but he's out with at a company bowling event tonight) we did what we always do - pick out the pajamas.  Cole and Kira each go to their drawer to get their choice of pjs.  Well, tonight Kira picked out three pairs before she decided on one and so I began folding the others back up to put back into her drawer.  Cole sees me and comes over and says - "mama, want me to show you how to fold those the right way?"  Dumbfounded, I said "sure."  So he carefully folds the pant legs and arms of the shirt and puts it back in the drawer.  I'm not gonna lie - it looked better than my folding job!  Just more proof that Holly Homemaker I'm not, and that Delia is a wonderful nanny who is teaching the kids things I cannot!  It was too cute.