so many languages...

For the last 7 or 8 months, I have been suffering from migraine headaches. It has really been challenging and I struggle with patience (especially with my kids) during the times that I have the migraine. They usually last 3 days and I am extremely sensitive to light and sound. One night I was putting the boys to bed and I turned on the floor fan in their room. Caleb was in the top bunk and I was tucking Cotter in on the bottom bunk. As I was talking with Cotter the curtain was moving back and forth like crazy. I got frustrated with Caleb and I yelled at him to leave the curtain alone. He said quietly, "But Mama, I'm not touching the curtain." I looked up to see that the fan was blowing the curtain and Caleb was laying quietly in his bed. I quickly realized that I should not have yelled at Caleb and that I was taking the pain of my headache out on him. So I turned around and looked at the fan and said "Fan!! You leave those curtains alone!!" The boys started laughing so hard, but then Cotter said, "But Mama, the fan didn't understand you." I asked why it didn't understand me and he said, "Because it speaks German!" So I turned back to the fan and said "Fan! Macht das nicht!" They started laughing again and then Caleb said, "The fan doesn't speak German, Cotter. It speaks FANish!"