Como dizer "Benza-te Deus!" em inglês

In English, one way to show such display of astonishment when they see how much a child has grown could be "My, hasn´t he grown?"


http://www.her.ie/celeb/news-gossip/pho ... -and-brad/



And these ones:

Ohhhhh my goodness he is already a little man.

Oh, is already a LITTLE MAN .. time flies!


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I focused on the "Benza Deus, como ele é crescido/como cresceu!"

But these ones are referring to kids of eight or teens, etc, as the grandas would say. More on the "wonderment" side.
Might be other ways to say that and at the same time wish the kid/toddler/baby "be protected against the "evil eye/bad look" of the envious etc.
Well, a concept of ours, and spread into some countries like Turkey, maybe some African countries as well.
In fact, in the United States, and in the United Kindgdom they aren´t so superstitious, or at least not in that way. Not that I know of.


http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/evil%20eye
http://www.medicalspanish.com/cultural- ... e-ojo.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_eye



Perhaps one way to loosely translate this would be "Good bless you and protect/deliver you from the evil (one)?" [saying that looking to the baby] or
saying "Good bless him and protect/deliver him from the evil (one)?"
or something like "May the (almighty) Lord bless him richly, etc.

Well, I will leave the floor to the ones in the advanced levels now.