Thanks, Grandma Judy

During our recent visit to LA, Grandma Judy worked her wonders and found a super book for 25 cents at the library. (Her find before this was a pop up Wheels on the Bus that took center stage for weeks.)

This time's treasure was The Old Lady Who Swalled a Fly. For some reason, this song had not made it into our repetoire so we were pleased to see it. At first Parker didn't like the book. Not sure why, since it is a very good looking book with great pictures but he said, "No Fly," in response to reading it.

Now, all he asks for is "More Fly." He doesn't have the exact order of the animals (fly, spider, bird, cat, dog, cow, horse) quite down yet, but he is getting there. Sometimes the bird tries to catch the cat(which just doesn't make any sense, now does it?) but usually he gets it right. He loves "How absurd! She swallowed a bird!"

And if you get distracted while reading it, which happens when you have two 8-week olds in the house, he stares at you and says the animal that you got stuck on like a question. Kinda like this: "Dog!?!?"

And when you get to the end and you say, "There was an old lady who swallowed a horse..." he turns to look at you with this sly grin on his face. "She DIED OF COURSE!" which always makes him giggle.

Today, I went through this whole routine roughly 57 times.

Thanks Grandma Judy.