"No!"

I think most parents dread the day their kid learns how to say "NO!" It makes sense.  It's hard to bargain with a defiant little one who thinks its funny to repeat the word "no" every time they don't want to do something. I think I fall out of that category of parents. When Nico first said "no" I was ecstatic!

Having a trilingual child has made every word really count. So today when he said "NO!" after I asked him to finish his breakfast, I was happier than I was annoyed. Wow, he speaks! He actually directed a word to me on purpose! Of course I am sure i'll get used to it and it will stop being cute, but the fact is, any words that come from Nico are encouraging us to continue teaching him all three languages.

Another novelty has been the fact that we've found ourselves having to ask Nico to stop talking.  This kid who would communicate in groans and gestures up until a few weeks ago is suddenly babbling the whole day long. His sentences are mixed up and I believe just me and Christian fully understand what he says. Nico comes up to us and says things like "borte camión rød"... which en English translates to "the red truck is gone".

I am having difficulties getting him to separate the languages because of the fact that I am also learning Norwegian.  Nico knows I speak Norwegian to other people, so its hard to set a boundary between Spanish and Norsk. English doesn't get mixed up that much because we never directly talk to him in English.  It's just the language we use as a couple, so his vocabulary in English is not that mixed up.

I am still super proud of him for trying to say more and more.  I hope our family's conversational language will not be a total mess of mixed up sentences in the end.  We need to keep working on that.