Carson has avoided learning to ride a bike without training wheels for far too long. So today, the day after New Year’s Day we went to the park and decided we would make him learn. As I suspected, he took to it just fine and probably could’ve a long time ago, but just decided he was too scared or we were too lazy to push him. (Or his mother wouldn’t let me push him until now). Anyway, it’s about time he learned how and stopped riding that silly tricycle.

It was my idea to buy a house with a pool. I know maintenance, power use to run the pump (and heater if we use it to heat the jacuzzi), danger for little kids, but I am tired of living in AZ and not having a pool. Ginger has avoided getting into the pool, because it is still quite chilly, but today was the day. (Video below, or just click here.)

Bill Cosby had a show called Kids Say The Darndest Things and even though I didn’t really watch the show, I have 4 little ones that say some hilarious things.

As the title suggests, kids don’t often hear words to songs very well sometimes even kids songs.  In fact, sometimes kids have never even heard certain words before (let’s hope they don’t hear a few select ones for a long time).  For example, Audrey used to sing the line “I’ll prepare myself while I am young” in I Love to See the Temple as “I’ll prepare myself while I am yum“.  The other day the kids were laughing about Carson singing The Twelve Days of Christmas line “…and a partridge in a pear tree” as “…and a cartridge in the pantry.”  Well, today as we were driving home, The Beatles’ Ticket to Ride was on and Gracie asked if they were singing, “She’s got a chicken to ride.”   You can imagine Ginger and I were almost in tears, because just the other day she told us that she used to think, “in the sun he melted” from Once There Was a Snowman was actually, “in the sunny mountain!”

Children.  The gift that keeps on giving.  Please post some of your own mis-heard lyrics.  I’ll have to think of some from when I was a kid…

I don’t care for this one, but mom loves it so I do too.

…but it can be Christmas for you again.