Lost In Translation

Hannah and I tend to have several conversations that seem to loop around and around and around. Adding Spanish immersion into the mix certainly hasn't helped anything! For instance, she jumped off the bus today all excited that there was going to be a party at school. "Only 7 of us get to go! It will be after the school is closed ... Like during night time!" After searching her backpack for more information and doing several laps around this topic trying to figure out what in the world she was talking about, I finally concluded that she was referring to a play that was held at the school ... at 7 at night. The details were all there, they were just left up for a bit of interpretation!

A mere hours after this loop of a conversation, she told us that during computer lab time that afternoon, everyone watched a video on "the man who watches over us with the two pretty ladies by his side."

"The man? What man?"
"The man up high. You know, the one with the two pretty ladies," she says, clearly frustrated at having to repeat herself.

Now, what she does in Kindergarten is still a great mystery, so while I thought showing a video of God surrounded by two angels wasn't exactly something that would be shown at school ... the image below is what popped into mind. Perhaps they were starting a subject on art history!

 
Clearly frustrated with her mother's inability to understand her, Hannah starts to describe him yet again.

"You know, the man with the short hair and with the two pretty ladies by his side. He's way up high, and he watches over us and helps everyone."

I sneak a peek at Jeff, who looks every bit as bewildered as me, then I look back at Hannah with pleading eyes.

"Can you describe him a little bit more?"

Suddenly, a book we recently read popped into mind.


He has short hair, he is one of the "guardians of childhood'" so in a sense, he watches over us all, and he's up high on the moon ... it all fit! There is even a little blurb about the Tooth Fairy and Mother Goose in there, so that must be where she got the two pretty ladies!

Relieved and quite pleased with myself for figuring the daily riddle out, I blurt out the answer. But Hannah just rolled her eyes and huffed in disgust. "No, Mom!"
So, we return to this seemingly never-ending loop trying to decipher what it is she's trying to say. It's so rare that she talks about what she does at school - so I feel we ought to get it right when she does!

Soldiering on, she gives me the description yet again.

"You know, the man who watches over us, from up there, with the two pretty ladies beside him."

Dead silence from Jeff and I.

"You know him ... I just can't remember his name," Hannah says.
"Is this from a book we read?"
"No".
"A video?"
"No."

I think it's safe to say I was at a complete loss in this conversation!

Then she chimes in, "you watch him on the news sometimes. You know, the guy with the short hair and the two pretty ladies beside him. He's the one who watches over us and helps to keep us safe."

Light bulb moment!
Tee hee!! Happy President's Day (a bit late!)