My Little Mathilda

I was reading Aly's post about baby names and she mentioned the name Mathilda. This was the name that I had originally wanted to name Hannah. It was my grandmother's middle name, Florence Mathilda. I envisioned calling her Mattie or Tillie. I love the name Mathilda. Sadly, I was the only one. I was out voted and Hannah was my second choice.

As luck would have it. Hannah has grown to have some resemblence to a young actress named, Mara Wilson . Mara has starred in the movie "Mathilda" about a child with special powers who outwits her mom and dad played by Danny DeVito and Rae Pearlman and the evil head mistress of her school. Hannah has come to love this movie and the little girl star who looks like her. Mara Wilson also starred in the new Miracle on 34 th Street, Thomas the Train, A Simple Wish and the Balloon Farm. All movies that we own. Watching Mara grow up on the screen is liking looking into the future of what Hannah will look like. It's rather weird.

What is weirder is that I'm not the only one who has noticed the resemblance. We were getting Hannah's hair cut a few months ago and the hairdresser commented that she looked so familiar. After moments of trying to place where she new our daughter from, she says, "Oh my God, she's Mathilda!" We assure her that she is not Mathilda and that the real Mathilda is now in her teens. Still the hairdresser cannot get over the resemblance.

Then the other night we were out to dinner with my in-laws and the waitress kept saying she looked like the little girl from the kid movies. I smiled and said "Mathilda?"

"No." the one with the train.

"Yep." I say. "We've noticed."

So what do you think? Is Mara Wilson, Hannah's doppleganger?