Montessori Spanish Lessons

Josh and Lola and I went to our favorite Mexican restaurant last night. At dinner, we were talking with the waitress, who is Mexican-American. She likes Lola's name because of its Spanish connotations. We told Lola to say "Gracias" when she received her food. She didn't say it, but a little later, when we were in the car on the way home, she said, "I want to go to mis casa." At first, we couldn't really believe what we had heard, but Josh said, "You want to go to your house? Mi casa?" and Lola nodded and said, "Mi casa." A minute later, she said with no prompting, "Gracias." The story behind Lola's precocious Spanish is that they have a Spanish teacher at Montessori who is starting the toddlers on Spanish words, so Lola must have heard us saying Spanish words at the restaurant and made the connection between "gracias" and "mi casa." Yay Lola!--K