Let's Learn Spanish

Gavin is enamored with a girl in his class named Brittany.  She came in as a new student, to his kindergarten classroom, before Christmas and we hear nothing but wonderful things about how amazing she is.  A tidbit to know that makes it all interesting is that he can't communicate with her as she speaks nothing but Spanish.  He thinks this just makes her more incredible and it forces him to show what he refers to as his "handsome face" so that he can make her laugh and smile at him. (It involves his left eyebrow wiggling up and down with little shooter hands next to his face...it's hilarious.)

 

Here is something similar and shows he is pretty dashing...

Recently, he has made attempts at learning her language.  Occasionally he'll ask for a new word and show off that he has learned something new, but it usually is just a new number or a made up word.  Tonight, as we were chatting again about her, he said that he wanted to learn a new word so that he could talk with her...really talk to her.  In all seriousness, I know he is getting a little frustrated with the language barrier and he is super excited that she is also learning English (he thinks she is doing it for him, and him alone and not because she is immersed in an English only speaking school setting). 

 

So, I asked him, "what word would you like to learn? If you could learn one word and say to her, what would you say?"

 

His response... you won't believe it... never in a million years will you guess it...

 

 

"HEXAGON," he said matter-of-factly.  As if that word makes the most sense to say in the whole wide world.  Who wouldn't say "hexagon?"  Duh.

 

"THAT is the word you are choosing to say to her?" I say. "Hexagon? ...Hi Brittany...hexagon.  What do you think she is going to do or say back to you?"  He laughed so hard and couldn't even stand up straight.  Like it hit him like a ton of bricks how crazy it sounded.  Then, he stopped and looked me dead in the eyes and with all seriousness said, "Actually, no.  I think I'd like to say tetrahedron." 

 

There are no more words.  I am dying of laughter inside.  I think I'll need to talk to his daddy about teaching him some better pick up lines!