It’s funny, Amelia is almost 2 and starting to use more and more words, and I notice she seems to be speaking mostly Spanish. (As you recall, Maria speaks Spanish to her, everyone else Dutch). She says things like “’pato” (for “zapato”, which means shoe), and “gato” (for cat) and “aleta” (for ‘”galetta”, cookie). So it seems the influence of the mother is pretty strong, because everyone else (me, the people in the daycare, family) speaks Dutch to her.
Soon we’ll be spending 6 months in India where there will be 3 native Spanish speakers and a lot of English. We’ll see how that goes!