107. When Your Four-Year-Old Steals the Show: A Conversation With My Son

In this impromptu episode, join me as I take you into a heartwarming and hilarious conversation with my four-year-old son. As we chat in Spanish, you'll hear about his current favorites, his fun adventures, and his adorable refusal to speak English with us.

Today, we celebrate Diego's 4th birthday and my fourth anniversary of madrehood, so join me as this episode promises to bring a smile to your face with the sweet sounds of childhood wonder.

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Episode Transcript

(00:01):
Today's episode is going to be.
Quite different than you.
Anticipated.
And the reason why is because Ihave a very special guest with
you.
For the first time I haveinvited over via Google.
My.
Four year old at the time ofthis recording today.

(00:25):
Today is his birthday.
He turns four.
I honestly cannot believe itwhen people say time will fly.
Once you become a mom, like itis so true.
And in honor of his birthday andreally celebrating me on his
birthday, because he made me amommy.

(00:47):
And so in this conversation, webasically talk all about the
ago.
I asked him what his favoritesare at the time of the
recording.
Maybe things have changed today,who knows, but.
Essentially, I wanted to curateour conversation and where he is
at at this time of his first fewyears of life.

(01:10):
I grew up.
With being recorded all thetime.
And I'm sure for many of us momswho consider yourselves
millennials, like we all grew upwith being recorded with.
camcorder.
My grandparents still have videotapes of me as a little girl,
literally the Eagles age.
And I thought.

(01:31):
Well nowadays everyone.
Yes.
We capture everything on ourphones and, and that's all good.
But sometimes these are either alittle glimpses of video
recordings or just pictures.
And I thought, what is anotheralternative And I'm like, I'm
just going to record this kid.
through the podcast, but also heis obsessed with my microphone.

(01:53):
Both of the boys are reallyobsessed with it.
And they have definitelyutilized the microphone for jam
sessions.
But this time I had him sit downwith me and we had a
conversation about him.
And that way I get to capturehis voice and just like his
thought process and really whathe is interested in.

(02:18):
I Know that this interview isall in Spanish.
this kid does not want to speakEnglish to us.
It's funny.
He goes to school.
He goes to half day preschool.
At least for this year, hisclass is all in English, even
though.
Two out of the three teachersthat are, there are Spanish

(02:39):
speaking teachers.
So like they accommodate him.
They still speak to him inSpanish, but a lot of the books
that they've read and the songsthat they seeing it's mostly in
English and won't be until nextyear.
Where he will be officially inthe dual language program at his
school.
So needless to say, heunderstands English and he has

(03:00):
had a full-on sentence inEnglish with my non Spanish
speaking family members andfriends.
But for some reason with us,he's like, Nope, I'm speaking to
you in Spanish.
So just so you know, Thisinterview is all in Spanish
Biddle.
If you do understand it.
Please stick around.
It is hilarious.
And even if you don't, it's justso cute hearing a little kid's

(03:21):
voice.
I don't know about y'all.
All right.
So in honor of his birthday, andagain, My fourth anniversary of
being a mommy.
I am really thrilled and excitedto have the My first born and my
Ray of sunshine on the podcast.
So please stay tuned.

(04:51):
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(08:20):
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(09:03):
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(09:57):
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(13:59):
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(14:19):
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(14:45):
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(15:52):
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(16:13):
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(16:33):
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(17:15):
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(19:40):
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(20:01):
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