So we made up a song on the way to Law-mart this morning (yeah law-mart has grown on me, so I’ll probably refer to walmart as law-mart from here on out).  By the way, we routinely trek halfway across the parking lot from where we parked to speak to Herbie’s girlfriend.  It seems to be a 50/50 chance that there will be a new model bug somewhere in the parking lot around here, as we see at least two every time we leave the house.  I’m waiting for an owner to walk up as we’re chatting with his/her car and look at me very strangely.

to the tune of itsy-bitsy spider…you need to have seen Herbie Rides Again (if not, read the first paragraph of this Amazon review/synopsis real quick, also, at the end, VW bugs come from all over the city to help Herbie)…

The itsy bitsy Herbie drove up the hill again.
Down came Mr. Hawk to knock the building down
Out came all the Herbies to chase the hawk away
And the itsy bitsy Herbie drove up the hill again.

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cuteness overload

Feb 07

Posted by: Rachel in: blog, funny emails, videos

And this one is just hilarious

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One last warm and fuzzy (quite literally) story for 2008.

Perhaps I should have been “unschooled.”  In my readings about homeschooling, I’ve become quite familiar with this term, meaning child lead learning.  Teachers/parents make learning tools accessible to children and help them to pursue their own interests to the fullest on the premise that children have an inborn hunger for knowledge and will learn what they need to know in the process.  So in other words there is no curriculum or lesson plan is used.

Well last night, I checked my mommy board (I hate that term) real quick to see the results of a friend’s ultrasound today (she was right thinking pink! haha) and I stumbled across this video someone had posted.  The story brought tears to my eyes, but of course my -is this real- alarm went off.  So where do you go when you need to check a story’s validity?  Why Snopes.com of course!  And it is absolutely true.  I was amazed.

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So on to the unschooling part.  First I had to look up the story and read everything there was to read on snopes.com.  From there I said “Hmm, this was in the 70’s, I wonder if Christian is still living?”  So I looked up lions on wikipedia to see what their average lifespan is.  Then Scott asked why Christian didn’t have a big mane in the video.  So I continued reading the rest of the article, including information about the mane.  Then I saw that the animal conversationalist involved, George Adamson, was killed, so I looked him up to read more about him.  I would have liked to continue reading about his work and “Born Free,” but I had to go put Caleb to bed!



After watching the video with her daughter, one of the moms on my board said her daughter asked, “Mommy can we get a baby lion?”

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He didn’t quite get through the song as perfectly as he usually does, but all his practicing has paid off.  Rudolph is topping the charts coming in as the number one request at family events and get togethers now.

As for the commentary in between songs…I was standing with my back to the window almost right up against it and apparently the little kitty from the video below felt it necessary to attack my bee-hind through the glass.

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Did I say something recently about us being easily entertained?  We’re a cheap date.

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Given Caleb’s reaction to the books, I sure hope this will be ‘age appropriate.’  The website still says not yet rated, but I thought I heard the commercial say PG.  The previews look so cute though.

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First, watch this.  Sorry about the big watermark stamp thing.  I found a way to download videos from youtube.  Problem number one solved.  It was the MPEG4 format, so I couldn’t edit the video at all to cut out the seven minutes I didn’t need.  So I had to convert it to a different file format, thus the big watermark.  Problem two solved.  Kind of.  Oh well, it is mostly for your hearing purposes anyway.

Now picture yourself in the living room with your seventy eight year old mother inlaw and your sister inlaw.  Your three year old pipes up “Pussy pussy pussy pussy.”

Now there’s one way to raise some eyebrows!

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…we stop trying to outdo each other and work together?

“Yes! YES! They do have too much time on their hands!!”

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We had to break out a ladder.  Certainly you can understand why.

What goes up…

…must come down

I LOVE how he says “Yes!” toward the end!

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