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Sunday, May 3, 2009

Bilingual Baby

Because Brett has two beautiful Brazilian big sisters (how's that for alliteration?!), we've always thought it would be great for him to be exposed to their primary language, Portuguese. Thankfully, our digital cable service offers a cool "bilingual baby" program that often shows in Portuguese, so Brett's been learning simple words and phrases since he was around 6 months old.
However, Brett's first understanding of a Portuguese word did not come from his videos, but rather from all the time he spent goofing around with his big sisters while they were visiting over Christmas. Millenne and Jaciane were always teasing him about his stinky peidar (toots), and his big chubby bunda (bottom) and buxo (tummy). So which word do you think Brett caught onto first?...


We tried and tried for over a week to get a good video of this, but Brett has developed an obsession with the camera so he's never really "himself" anymore once we pull it out. When the camera is off, Brett will toddle around patting his buxo and laughing, over and over and over. It's such a crackup!

3 comments:

Mommy said...

so cute!! that's great that he is learning another language. They are so smart...aren't they??

Jaciane Cavalcante said...

That's sister Boy!!! I love IT!!! Brett has a buxo like dadá does!!!! hehehe!! Like sisters!! Big buxo!!! I love the second. He just show us an walk! Perfect!! Thanks Mo!! YOu are tha best Portuguese Teacher!!! Oh oh!!! He needs learn Millenne Peidar!!! Ops!! She can't know!!!

The Boehme (pronounced Bay-me) family said...

Yeah, Jaci - Brett's next word will be FUMACA!!!!!! HAHAHAAHAAA!