Lost in the Translation

Have you ever played the game "Telephone"?

You know, it's the game where you whisper a secret message in your friend's ear. The message is passed from one person to another. When the secret finally reaches the end of the line, it is often hilariously different from the original.

Yesterday morning my toddler was uncharacteristically grumpy. Conversely, Baby Girl was in an exceptionally good mood. My husband and I joked that the baby had "stolen her brother's bandwidth", meaning that she had sucked all the "good mood vibes" out of the room, leaving nothing for her unfortunate brother.

Our preschooler was half-listening to our conversation as he sat on the living room floor building Lego space ships. He got a puzzled look on his face, paused, and asked:

"Daddy, why did you steal the sandwich?"