Twenty

I made the kids quesadillas.

"Daddy, what does quesadilla mean?"

"Queso means cheese in Spanish, so a quesadilla is a cheesy tortilla delight."

"How do you know that?"

"Porque yo conozco mucho Español, chica."

"What does that mean."

"Because I know a lot of Spanish, girl."

"Well, I know a lot, too."

"Yo conozco más.  I know more."

"No, I know more.  Uno, dos, tres, quatro, cinco, seis, siete, ocho, nueve, diez."

"Very nice.  Once, doce, trece, catorce, quince, diez y seis--"

Hand on hip now, without blinking:  "¡Diez y siete!  ¡Diez y ocho!  ¡Diez y nueve!  ¡Vente!"

And here we had been thinking of pulling her out of Spanish class because we could never convince her to say anything.