While combing Elizabeth's hair a couple days ago, she told me:
"You're putting a rash in my hair."
A rash?! In her hair?!
Then it hit me! A part in one's hair is una raya in Spanish! (Keep in mind our Uruguayan pronunciation!)
She was sitting on her Daddy's lap while I was combing her hair this morning, so I told him about the "rash" incident and my explaining that una raya is "a part" in English.
She pointed to her box of Mega Bloks and the remnants of an airplane (according to her) that she had made with them and exclaimed:
"My airplane is apart!"
Oh, the complexities of language(s)!
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