Greetings from Delaware, USA! Spanish ml English ML

Hi Cameron, congrats on your baby! It is wonderful that you are having time just with June. There are others on here who are non-native speakers and will be able to give extra tips in that regard, but it looks as though you do have a lot going for you! The great thing in the US is that Spanish resources are everywhere, which will be good motivation - for her and for you! As for quiet moments, this is something I struggle with as I naturally prefer to observe children rather than talk non-stop, and I also prize independence and independent play, which do require quiet moments! I try to compensate by ensuring that when I speak (which I obviously do a lot of too ), I try to do so as 'well' as possible, using diverse vocabulary and so on. And of course we read regularly too. We don't have a television and haven't started screentime yet, and I'm not sure whether that is helping or hindering things - I'm not formally opposed to it but just have never felt the need or desire so far, so am waiting until she asks (which I assume will be soon!).

I have to say that, so far, for us, the group environment (daycare) has 'trumped' mamá and papa in terms of stimulating motivation to speak in my daughter. She is almost three and basically speaks only in ML (Spanish) despite the fact that she never heard a word of ML before she turned 12 months, was only in a part-time daycare in ML starting at 12 months and was with ml1 (her father and nanny) and ml2 (me) speakers the rest of the time (I say 'was' because we moved countries and switched MLs two weeks ago). However, (1) she understands everything in both mls, and I'm becoming ever-more confident that she will soon start speaking, and (2), her Spanish is really very good for a child her age. This is obviously nothing to do with either her father or me, as we have never spoken or provided any resources in Spanish to her (on the contrary, we were very opposed to the idea of doing so, so she never even heard Spanish songs in our house), but it does indicate to me that if a child sees a language as 'fun' (she loved her daycare), and there is peer pressure (with other children), they will pick it up very well! So you should definitely enrol your daughter in the bilingual school when she gets old enough, and if you can find Spanish playgroups in the meantime you should see whether you can enrol her!