Drunken Sailor

Lyrics | Great Big Sea lyrics

Last week Mikayla participated in her first choir concert of the year.

Do you see where this is going yet?

The whole family was able to watch the show so here is a short video compilation that I threw together since obviously photographs don't quite capture the essence of the song.  It's less than 3 minutes long.



A quick Google search brought up the above lyrics and, thank goodness, the choir group used a slightly different set of lyrics.  Maybe Mikayla will enlighten us in the near future with a more accurate version of the Mount Baker Middle School interpretation.

UPDATE:
Mikayla has now provided us with the actual lyrics... Middle School style:

What shall we do with a drunken sailor?
What shall we do with a drunken sailor?
What shall we do with a drunken sailor earlye in the morning?

La, La, La-La (repeat multiple times)

Put him in the scuppers with a hosepipe on him.
Put him in the scuppers with a hosepipe on him.
Put him in the scuppers with a hosepipe on him earlye {clap} earlye in the morning.

Put him in the longboat 'till he's sober.
Put him in the longboat 'till he's sober.
Put him in the longboat 'till he's sober earlye {clap} earlye in the morning.

La, La, La-La earlye in the {stomp} morning!

~E

Pajama Day. Take 1.

Mikayla was excited for 'Pajama Day' at school today.

I was jealous and thought about wearing my slippers to work, but didn't.

At about 2:50 this afternoon my cell phone rang.
It was Mikayla.
In a quiet voice she simply said:
"Today was not Pajama day."

It seems Pajama day was rescheduled to some future date. Somehow everyone else knew, except for Mikayla and two eighth grade girls.

My guess is that she'll get over this minor embarrassment.

At least she was comfortable!

~E

Halloween 2009

This year Alexia was a dalmatian and Mikayla was going to be 'mustard' but decided to be a fairy instead. Despite the fact that Halloween is probably T's least favorite holiday, she was instrumental in getting Alexia's spots sewn onto her costume and she also make Mikayla's tutu-skirt from scratch. Thanks also to Sue & Andrea for the help, advice, guidance and support.

Me? I just ate candy, drove kids around and took pictures.

Friday night we went to the Fall Harvest Festival at Alexia's school.

Mikayla volunteered at one of the game booths and also at the Carmel Apple booth.


Alexia played a lot of games and participated in the costume contest. She didn't win any prizes, but her BFF Aryana did. Aryana was the 'Kittens 4 sale' next to Alexia.

Tanya and I volunteered at the Halloween Bowling booth. There's nothing qite like 12 year olds hurling bowling ball sized pumpkins at 2-liters of water... or your ankles if you aren't paying attention.

Today, Halloween, started with our final soccer game of the season for Alexia. It was a great first half, but the second half didn't turn out quite so favorable. The kids were more interested in trick or treating... or at least that's the excuse I'll use.

The weather was perfect for trick or treating. It was dry and not cold. The kids both met up with friends for their neighborhood tours and were quite satisfied with their loot.





While the kids were out trick or treating, Tanya was correcting papers, planning for conferences and ready to decorate for Thanksgiving.

~E

What did you say?

Do you ever say something that doesn't make any sense?

Here is an example:

Imagine you are a mother.
You are in a hurry.
You are trying to encourage a child of yours, who might be about 9 years old, to finish getting dressed.
Relatively quickly.
Maybe you intended to say:
"Now go put on your clothes."
but instead you actually say:
"Now go put on your pancakes."

Here is another example:

Imagine you are really mad.
REALLY mad.
You are about 9 years old.
You are in your room.
Maybe your dad is trying to talk to you, really calmly.
Probably you really don't want to listen to his logical nonsense right now and just want him out of your room.
Maybe you intended to say:
"Get Out Of My Room!"
but instead you actually say:
"Get Out Of My Mouth!"

It's hard not to laugh when those things happen.
Even if it makes people more mad.

~E

Pumpkin Patch

After a fun soccer game this morning we loaded into the car and went to the local pumpkin patch.


We were glad that it wasn't raining and a layer of hay helped to keep the mud to a minimum.

The kids posed for pics and then they quickly each located desirable pumpkins. We posed the pets for a couple of pics and Catrina felt it important to protect us from the threatening black cat.




Eventually we escaped back to the safety of the car with only a minor argument about whether the dogs really needed their own pumpkins.

They don't. It doesn't matter what google says.

Now we need to find time to carve pumpkins.

Household Oddities

Sometimes things change gradually and you don't really notice the changes.

Or maybe you do notice the changes, but it's a small change and not really a big deal so you just 'let it be' and move on.  Often times these changes are just meant to be temporary.

I think this probably happens to everybody.

Then... one random day you realize how a lot of small changes, insignificant on their own, can build up into something that might seem peculiar to the casual observer.  Or visitors.  Or Friends.  Or Neighbors.

Do you see where I'm going with this?

Lately I've noticed some unusual things in and around the house.  They're all temporary.  In this situation, "Temporary" is measured in five year increments.

Let me list a few of the oddities for you.

1)  We have a child gate set up to block off the downstairs bathroom.  This is odd because my youngest is nine.  Years, not months.

2)  We have a litter box outside on the porch.  Our cat is an indoor cat.

3)  I have a Rainforest Closet.  Clothes are often hung in that doorway to my closet while they dry.  Every time I have to go in and out of there it feels like I'm ducking under wet tree branches.

4)  All the bedroom and bathroom garbage cans can now be found on the top of furniture, instead of on the ground.  Kind of like we are expecting a 100 year flood and don't want the garbage cans to get damaged.  Actually, it's not a flood we are concerned about... it's Hurricane Katrina (the dog, if you didn't know).

5)  The cat won't eat until you hop the child gate into the bathroom where her food is and 'look' to see if she has food in her bowl.  She won't go eat until after you go into the bathroom first.

6)  The "Industrial Art" (complete with Artist Drawn pencil circle) underneath our bathroom window was originally a towel holder.  Three times.  Now it's just Art, which is better than the holes in the wall which would be the alternative.

7)  Our family room is currently painted with three walls of purple and one wall of brown (oops, I mean "Latte").  We are trying to decide if we like the Latte color or not.  We've been deciding for about two months now.

That's about it I guess.  There must be others that I'm forgetting but that's alright because I'm sure you'll point them out the next time you visit.

~E