Nearly every Friday, the kids' teachers send a brief printout that has about a page of questions covering what they learned that week, to discuss with the kids during the Shabbos meals.
A few weeks ago, FF's questions were from the section of Parshas Toldos that they learned that week. Everything was going normally (FF was answering most questions correctly, being stumped by a few) until this happened:
Husbinator: What did Yaakov tell Esav he wanted for the lentil stew?
FF: His girl.
Me and Husbinator: Wait, what?????
FF: Esav's biggest girl.
Me: Um... I don't think I ever heard that one before... [Getting slightly derailed] Did Esav even have any kids at that point?
Husbinator: No??? What are you---? Look, let's check the answer on page. Whoa, oh my Gosh, does that really say?--
Me: No way.
Husbinator: Wait, no, never mind, it just says--
Me: OH!!!! [Laughing.] Wow, that's amazing. It says בכורה!!!!
Me again to FF: Wow, that's awesome. Yes, I never realized that. OK, so FF, בכורה has two meanings. You're totally right, בכורה can mean a biggest girl, but here, בכורה means being the oldest.
[Husbinator and I proceed to explain what first-born-hood means, still reeling from this brilliant misunderstanding.]
We had a parent-teacher conference the next day, and of course Husbinator told the teacher this story. A few words into the story, the teacher jumped in insisting, no way, I did NOT tell them that nu-uh, no way, he did not hear that from me... Until the teacher also had the epiphany and figured out how FF got there, laughed, and agreed that's awesome.
FF is so cool.
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