Thanks, Sara! It's amazing how much good advice I'm getting here!
Well, I think of the little girl as a Mexican immigrant living in California, so I would certainly like her to speak a Mexican kind of Spanish. So I'll follow your advice and change her call for help for the third time! (and all this procrastination also means it will take longer before I'll have to deal with the rest of the scene, which I sorely fear will require things that my knowledge of the English language will not be able to adequately deal with at all....
Ann
