six!

It's my blogiversary--six years ago today I wrote my first post about being a non-native speaker of French trying to teach the language to my baby nephew in just one afternoon a week.  Six years later, here I am nursing my second child in the middle of the night, singing Au clair de la lune, wondering if her first word will be in English or in French, while her bibliophile big brother, sound asleep, clutches a book to his chest in the room next door.

This sight greets us nearly every night--Griffin falls asleep "reading"--only the book and the jammies change. 

In August Griffin will start preschool at the dual immersion (English-Spanish) elementary school, and while my husband and I are thrilled that he's guaranteed a spot through fifth grade (after spending a year on the waiting list), I'm worried about what that will mean for his French.  Will Spanish supplant it?  Will he successfully juggle all three?  What language(s) will he learn to read in?  What language(s) will he speak with Gywneth?  What will the next six years reveal?

Well, we fully expect that Gwyneth will love books as much as the rest of us!

I marvel at the progress that my children--and my blog--have made.  Thanks for joining us for the journey.