Raising a Bilingual (and hopefully a trilingual) speaking child

We are a multicultural, multiracial family.  I am from Manila, Philippines and my husband is from Spain. 

Both hubby and I are bilingual in English (which was our 1st language as a couple, until I learned Spanish).  So when I got pregnant with our only son, we already made a very serious commitment to impart to our son our dominant languages - English and Spanish.  I would have wanted to teach my son right away tagalog, our native language in the Philippines, but for benefits of globalization, my husband and I agreed to focus first on English. 

Since day 1 of my pregnancy, English has always been my language to my son.  Everything - songs, conversations, rhymes were spoken in English. I did make an exemption though, I would always call him "anak" (which means offspring (son/daughter) in Tagalog).  

It was not an easy way.  As we have already incorporated 2 languages during the earliest stage of my son´s development, he spoke late. At one point, his pool of pediatricians even considered the possibility of him being deaf as he barely spoke a word.  At that time, it was physically, emotionally and mentally draining as we do not know until when we will attribute my son´s lack of communication skills to being bilingual.  

But persistence, prayer, hardwork, commitment always pay off.  My husband and I continue with our set-up of 2 languages - English with me and Spanish with papa and by the time that my son is already 3 years old, he started to be more conversant Yehey!! By the time that he was 4,5 years old he was reading, in English and Spanish, at a good pace.  By the time he finished preschool at 5,5 years old, he is considered as an advanced reader in his class!!! There were times that he would lapse by addressing me in Spanish but I would insist saying that with him, I only speak and understand English. It is a bit tough as my son as my son knows that I can speak Spanish; he knows as I would engage in Spanish conversations with my in laws, with the local sellers, etc, 

We also made it a point that all activities with me are in English and in Spanish with Papa.  This includes - watching tv, reading books and storytelling, counting, playing, cooking and other parent-child activity. 

Now; I am incorporating our 3rd language to my son, my beloved tagalog. It is more difficult as he is now very comfortable with English and Spanish but again, we will persist and we will work hard.  And of course, no pressure.. After all, learning should be fun. :) 

Thanks to my son for being such a real trooper for understanding at an early age the importance of languages and to my husband, thanks to you sweetie for all the love and support. :)