Happy Birthday/Feliz Cumpleaños

I am not so much thrilled that today is my birthday...but it's here regardless of if I am happy about it.  :D

So along with my other Spanish songs, I'm adding the song our family sings for birthdays!

First we sing the traditional Happy Birthday song in English.  Next in Spanish we sing:

Feliz, feliz en tu dia.  Amiguito/a que Dios te bendiga.  Que reine la paz en tu dia, y que cumplas muchos mas.  (Happy happy on your day. Little friend may God bless you.  May peace reign on your day and many more birthdays to come)

Followed by:

Happy Birthday to you, you live in a zoo, you look like a monkey, and you smell like one too.

Then:

Estas poneindo viejo/a, con cara de conejo y cuerpo de avestruz (You are getting old, with the face of a rabbit and the body of an ostrich!)  

Noche De Paz

This is one of the very few Spanish Christmas songs I remember from High School Spanish class...oh so many years ago!

Noche De Paz/Silent Night

Feliz Navidad

A Puerto Rican must have!

Jose Feliciano!

Blanca Navidad/White Christmas

I liked this one because it has the lyrics/translation in both languages! No 'Blanca Navidad' here in PR, but I don't miss the snow too much!

Santa Claus Llegó A La Ciudad

 Because English Christmas songs sung in Spanish is always a sure way to smile!

I'm here!

Well hoping this post goes through! I'm not sure what happened, but several of the posts I had scheduled to appear...never did.  Nor are they in the drafts folder anymore! I for some reason didn't have the email alerts set up for this account, so I just never noticed that they didn't post...and I hadn't been back on here since the beginning of Dec!

So we are here! La familia estan bien!

I've been noticing how much more Spanish the kids have been speaking! Sweet Thing of course, has been my talker for awhile now.  Tonight, at CVS, she wanted to buy some gingerbread houses.  I was looking for something for Papa Loco, so she went to the register (caja) herself and asked! And understood exactly what the lady told her.  When she came back to me to tell me, I asked her if she asked her in English or Spanish.  Granted, she did ask for "Gingerbread Houses" vs...whatever that might be in Spanish, but in PR, Spanglish is totally understood!

Smarty Pants spent the morning with his Abuelo and primo, G, at the barbería (barber) getting his hair cut.  Abuelo had errands to run afterward, so SP apparently read some of the diario (newspaper) en español.  He didn't understand all of it, but was able to get some out of the stories! 

Today I was quite proud of myself.  Today Papa Loco had posted something on FB regarding the school system here in Puerto Rico.  He wrote it in Spanish, and a friend of mine was trying to read it, but said the Bing translator was awful.  She knows a little Spanish, enough to know what it translated was not too accurate.  So, I opened it up and translated it for her! And I knew all but 1 word! Some of it I paraphrased just for ease, but overall, I was able to translate the whole thing.  Apparently my version made much more sense than Bing's.

I'm still working daily on my Spanish, but I've noticed I do use it more than I did a year ago at this time! Hopefully in another few years, I'll be fluent! The kids too! 

I'll definitely work on being a better blogger! I had so much to say in those others posts, perhaps they are floating around somewhere on the internet! I've got more to say too as the fun times in PR are among us! 

Nov-Jan are big party celebrations here in PR! No one does Christmas quite like Puerto Rico! I look forward to sharing! 

Buenas Noches!

La Mama Loca