Last summer, the babies went to Anjali's birthday party and got some really neat books as party favors. They each have pictures of children signing to a popular children's song - The Itsy Bitsy Spider, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, and Row, Row, Row Your Boat. In the last month or so, these have gotten so popular, in fact, that we regularly have to hide them to avoid losing our voices from excessive singing along.
The Row, Row, Row Your Boat has a few additional verses that we didn't know before, involving a Crocodile and a Lion. Obviously, we've adapted these for our Croco-Daniel and Caro-Lion. Zo we sing like this:
Row, Row, Row Your Boat
Gently down the stream
Merrily,Merrily, Merrily, Merrily
Life is but a dream
Rock, rock, rock your boat
Gently down the stream
If you see a Croco-Daniel
Don't forget to scream!
Row, Row, Row Your Boat
Gently to the shore
If you see Caro-Lion
Don't forget to roar!
But poor Max was left out! So I had to add another verse:
Row, Row, Row Your Boat
While lying on your backs
And if you see a monkey there
I'll bet his name is Max!
Tonight, the babies were really tired and having meltdowns and reading/singing to them calmed them - for a while. So I ended up singing quite a few times. A little while later, Caroline picked up the book, looked at the cover, looked up at me and said "doe woah yo bow!" For those of you unsure about Salvateenese, that's, "Row, Row Your Boat!"
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