One day I'll be QUEEN!!!!!!! Bark!!

I know I have stated before in previous letters that Susie is my little song bird…well she continues to be so. She sings and sings and sings and…hums, and makes noises….(Mary on the other hand has picked up a knack for “beat box” the noise that rappers make to get a beat….not exactly the thing you want your daughter to do in the middle of Amazing Grace, I have no idea where she picked it up….but it is just something she does…and we try to squelch!).
To give you some back ground to the story I will tell you is this….The kids LOVE their veggie tales, and because we seem to always forget to exchange the DVDs in our van we find that we will watch the same 2 movies over and over and over…one of the movies is the veggietales “Lyle the Kindly Viking”. The other, and the biggest hit with the girls this season, is the Veggietales ‘Esther’. There is a song from Esther that the girls particularly love. We shall call the song “Puppies”…The scene in the film shows a beauty slash talent show for young ladies. This is showing the story of Esther who was taken to the palace in scripture and awaited the king’s approval with other girls. This brings to mind the thought that there must have been a time that the king surveyed the girls before choosing Esther.
So, in the movie, a weird, ditsy gal comes forward with some horn looking hat. She is playing a squeeze box and sings in a rather quirky voice….
“Puppies are cuddly….Puppies are cute….Theeeiiiiir never nasty or Mmmmmmmeeannnn.” Before this chick sings the next line she takes a long dragging nasal breath sucking in VERY DEEPLY “…..I’d give a home to allllllll the lost puppies if ever one dayyyy I were QQQUUUUEEEENNNNNNNNNN!” She crescendos to the end….stops singing…then…..Barks.
This doesn’t seem to bother us as a whole, watching the same thing every time we are on the road…..UNTIL you find yourself singing the songs. Over, and over and over and over…..
So couple together the thought that Susie likes to sing, and then the songs from these movies. You get a pretty crazy picture. Let me paint you one of the pictures we have seen lately.
Every other Friday I have been making it the family’s habit to go grocery shopping. This is no small task, which is one of the reasons I took it out of MY personal schedule and moved it to Aaron and My schedule….This allows for two adults, and more hands to carry groceries both in and out. I was doing this by myself on a week night…or when I had the kids..It was just getting very laborious doing it either by myself or without Aaron and having the kids in tow.
Aaron and I were out braving the weekend crowds of Walmart in Madison, Indiana, He was pushing the girls in one buggy. I had Nathan in the basket part of mine, and Amy in the baby seat. I was selecting the choicest of product for budget amounts. I was trying not to take so long just staring at egg cartons, or cheese…Aaron was with me and face it, even the bravest of men aren’t exactly in love with grocery shopping, with or without children.
The girls for once weren’t fighting while sharing the basket. They used to fit better then they do right now….they are getting to be too big for pushing….So instead of fighting, they thought they would liven up the shopping experience for the shoppers.
Both girls were singing together while we shopped…..Then Susie AND Mary burst forth
“ GUPPPIES ARE CULLY, GUPPIES ARE CUTE….THEY’RE NEVER NASTY OR MMMMEEEEEANNNNN” Then comes the nasal drag……and then they ripped forth again into “ I’D GIVE A HOME TO ALLLLL THE LOST GUPPIES, IF EVER ONE DAY I WERE QQQQQQQUUUUUEEEEEEEENNNNNNNNNN.” Yeah….they barked at the end of the song too. They were so loud…and they weren’t pronouncing puppies..or cuddly. This was just too, too funny. I wasn’t ashamed, or overly shocked. These were happy kids. And I do think that people would rather kids sing at the top of their lungs then be screaming at a higher decibel.
But then they were really getting with it….Mary would assume the posture of the twerpy gal…She would cross her eyes (the girls eyes were crossed in the film, to essentuate the nutty look the gal had) Then Mary would move her arms back and forth assuming the accordion motion. Then, they would sing again….eyes in character with the song. And they would sing this song over and over. They would also bark, in unison, at the end of every single rendition of this tune. Aaron and I were doing our best to not squelch the fun, while still trying to maintain a certain level of decorum.
Mary though was who was killing us. She pantomimed the song so perfectly, and Susie was barking at perfect pitch….I wish I had a camera…I wish this moment was audible. This would be perfect black mail for future men….an acid test….to see if this was something they would like for the rest of their lives….Goonies.