Hey diddle diddle,
The cat and the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the moon,
The dog laughed to see such sport,
And the dish ran away with the spoon. (and the fork ~ P&G '09)
The cat and the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the moon,
The dog laughed to see such sport,
And the dish ran away with the spoon. (and the fork ~ P&G '09)
We were given a clock before the girls were born that portrays the nursery rhyme "Hey Diddle Diddle" and has the words to the rhyme around it. We say it to/with the girls before we go to bed every night. I'm not sure why or how it started but it's part of our nightly ritual now and they let us know if we forget to say it! They also decided the rhyme needed a little something else to the end. And I have to agree. Why would the dish run away with the spoon and not the fork? What did the fork do to deserve the dish dis? (You're trying to say those last two words again, aren't you?) At least the girls understand the importance of including everyone.
Back to the rhyme at hand.. this weekend I was able to catch video of Peyton singing the rhyme, at least part of it. Now that I think about it, this is also a true portrayal of the attention span of a 2 and half year old. They wake up at 6:30am and go to bed at 8:00pm. That's 13 and half hours in the entire toddler day... with a 2 hour nap that leaves 41,400 awake seconds... with the average toddler attention span at, let's be generous and say, 13 seconds:
I digress, here is the video...
Back to the rhyme at hand.. this weekend I was able to catch video of Peyton singing the rhyme, at least part of it. Now that I think about it, this is also a true portrayal of the attention span of a 2 and half year old. They wake up at 6:30am and go to bed at 8:00pm. That's 13 and half hours in the entire toddler day... with a 2 hour nap that leaves 41,400 awake seconds... with the average toddler attention span at, let's be generous and say, 13 seconds:
- that's 3,185 separate attention spans a day
- adding another 3,185 for Baby B
- for a grand total of 6,370 separate attention spans...
Who wants to babysit?!?!
I digress, here is the video...
Cute Alert! Cute Alert!
Yes, I agree.
You can only really understand the last word she says as she squeezes the life out of the word "moon".
Give her a break... she's only two!
Miraculously and with the help of the gravitational pull of the moon we were able to convince both toddlers to stand in the same frame so we could capture the SINGING EVENT OF THE SUMMER!
Nothing like singing in your PJ's and sandals at 10:00 in the morning...
Yes, they are standing on the picnic table and singing.
They also like to jump off it.
Are we terrible parents? Maybe.
But we got the video! And the blackmail video catalog gets a little bigger...
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