No hablo espanol

My children have been watching A LOT of "Dora the Explorer" and "Diego - Animal Rescuer" on Nick and Nick Jr. For those of you who don't have kids, or don't have these stations, let me fill you in about these two shows. First of all they are very educational in that they teach math, sequencing, memory strategies, Spanish etc. At the core they are great shows, but in reality, I just want to throttle Dora by the end of the show! Yes yes, I know she's just a cartoon, and yes yes, the fact that I want to physically harm a fake person is both odd and slightly frightening; but if you had to listen to her talk as much as I do, you would want to do the same thing. First of all, her head is ginormous (WAY too big for her body), and secondly, she YELL talks (she constantly sounds like she is talking over a large noisy crowd of people...and it REALLY gets on my nerves). Diego doesn't bother me as much, his head is the appropriate size and he doesn't YELL talk quite as loud as Dora, but there is something about his overall demeanor that rubs me the wrong way. However, I've digressed from the main reason for this post (although it felt good to get that off my chest). The point of this post is that my children have not only been yelling at the t.v. in Spanish, but they've also been using Spanish in every day conversation, and it's just jaw droppingly cute!
There have been the little things like "Hola Mom" when greeting me, or "muy bien" when commenting on something I've cooked for them (clearly my son knows good cooking when he tastes it :-). But there have been new and more amazing things too. The other day we were driving down the street and Brian said, "that house is amarillo (yellow)" and then Kate piped in with, "that car is rojo (red)". By the way, I'm googling all these words as I go along typing this because I'm not 100% how to spell them!!! Then Kate asked, "what is pink in Spanish?" and Brian responded, "I thinks it's blanco rojo (white/red)" because he knows white and red make pink! Then he went on to say, "And I think gray is blanco negro (white and black)."
The cutest thing of them all though was listening to Brian (age 4) teach Kelly (19 months) Spanish. The two of them were sitting on the kitchen floor this morning eating potato chips out of a huge bag of potato chips that KELLY was holding (who gave the toddler a huge bag of chips to hold anyway?? :-). All of a sudden I could hear Brian say, "Kelly we're going to be leaving soon so we have to say adios! Adi means good, and os means bye. Can you say that? Say adi." So Kelly said, "adi". And then Brian said, "say os", so Kelly said "os." Brian said, "Very good Kelly you said adios. Goodbye. Adios means goodbye. Right Kell?" To which Kelly said, "Right Bry", and then she grabbed another handful of chips.
I guess I'll suck it up and endure thousands more hours of Dora, if it means that I can witness something as cute as that!
ADIOS for now!!