Elizabeth Masturzo-Baldeón is a language education specialist who lives with her familia in the suburbs of Washington D.C. She left her teaching job in an elementary school to work at home raising her daughter Sofía- and she couldn’t be happier! You can read about how her familia makes a conscious effort in their daily lives to bring baby up bilingual at her blog, La Mother Tongue.
Wow! Not sure how summer has started in your barrio, but here in the Nation’s Capital, hace calor! This means we have had lots of pool-time and fun with water. Until recently, I really thought there wasn’t a way to make playing in the pool more fun, but my daughter Sofía found a way! When I wasn’t looking, a little hand went into my glass of water and hielo (ice) and voilá…a whole new fun dimension of playing in theRead More ...
El Día del Padre / Father’s Day is coming up this June 17 and I’ve been a little stumped at what creative gift Sofía will give her Papi. Recently I read an article about how people who received gifts in fancy wrapping tended to like the gifts considerably more than people who received the same gift but not wrapped as nicely. I think this is super-true and certainly applies to children’s art as well. I think any piece of art, wellRead More ...
Have you run out of ideas of how to maximize your Cielito’s outside play? Or maybe you´re just secretly aburrida of playing the same things outside – Like I am! Well, in order to add a little zing to our outdoor play, we created a new game, which we call, El Juego de Números en Tiza, The Chalk Number Game. Plus, there are MANY not-well-advertised benefits of exercising and playing outdoors in addition to keeping physically fit. Exercise helps us developRead More ...
Is it just me or does it seem that there are more baby showers in the spring than in the other seasons of the year? Recently, some friends and I hosted a baby shower for another amiga. When I commented to my mother-in-law that I would need her help taking care of Sofía for the day because the shower would be at my casa, her eyes lit up! And then the stories started pouring out about how much she and herRead More ...
No matter how much I think I’m culturally adept in my bicultural world-tuned in to both Hispanic and US culture, inevitably I make some blunders! In our house, Sofía and I have been working on making gifts for her teachers or profesoras, as we call them. I was proud of myself because I had not waited till the last minute. But alas, it seems like I have! For me, Teacher Appreciation Day has always been May 15, but evidently theRead More ...
On el 19 de abril, Colombian artist, Fernando Botero cumple 80 años. I thought that this would be the perfect opportunity to incorporate a little bit of cultura into one of our almost daily activities–playing with plastilina. Inspired by Botero’s esculturas, we set out to make our own escultura from plastilina and spring chécheres. First we talked briefly about Botero. If Sofía were growing up in Colombia, by now she would know who Botero was because she would be surrounded by his works of art and hear his name everywhere. So we lookedRead More ...
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