LOL, Tig Notaro and Her Wife Can't Understand Their Toddlers, Whose Nanny Taught Them Spanish

Understanding toddler speak can be tough, but as Tig Notaro and her wife Stephanie Allynne are quickly learning, it's even tougher to be able to decipher what your toddler is saying when he may or may not be speaking in Spanish instead of English. Tig says the couple's nanny only speaks in Spanish to their nearly 2-year-old sons, Finn and Max, so once she leaves for the day, the boys are a little confused as to which language they should communicate in.

"I do not speak Spanish, and nor does my wife, but we have a nanny and she only speaks Spanish to the babies," Tig said on The Ellen Show. "It's really something, we have no idea what they're saying. And they're kind of at that age where some words aren't perfectly spoken, and we're just sometimes like, 'Do you think that's Spanish?' But if we're in another room we can hear — as soon as we leave the room, they're just speaking full-on Spanish. . . They're like fully bilingual, it's the craziest thing."

Ellen, ever the instigator, then asks: "Don't you want to learn Spanish so you can talk to your kids?" To which Tig, who doesn't have time right now for casual Spanish lessons, responds: "They speak English as well."

Tig says her adorable boys do have interests — well, one interest — beyond Spanish: garbage trucks, like most other toddlers. They're so obsessed that she's planning their second birthday party to have a garbage theme, complete with a trash can piñata and a chartered garbage truck.

"We're friends with all the garbage men in the neighbourhood, so I was thinking of paying one to just come in the back fence and just toss some garbage in the backyard," she said. "Max and Finn would lose their minds."

The mom joked that because garbage is her kids' passion — "at least they have an interest, some people don't have interests" — it's now become hers, too.

"We take a walk every morning and [one morning] my hair was just off in every direction, I was in slippers, and then I saw a garbage truck go by and was like, 'A garbage truck!' And I just started pushing the babies at like 50 miles an hour up the hill, and Stephanie was like: 'Look at yourself! Just look at yourself!' And I was like: 'What? The garbage truck! We gotta get it!' You know, it's now my passion, too."