Fuzzy Wuzzy

Reinterpreted by a two year old:

Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair
Fuzzy Wuzzy was not a bear...
Because he was a truck.
With wheels on the ground
That go around around around.

Bedtime Transcripts

We have some great conversations. At bedtime, some of the funniest occur as Ari tries his best not to go to sleep. Here are some excerpts:

He is singing: "Nona, Boompa, Boompa, Nona, Grandma, Grandpa..." There was a lot more song before and after this. We had just gotten back from Nona and Boompa's house, so we are assuming he probably went through naming the whole family.

We have been on rhyming words a lot lately. Sometimes words are fun, sometimes just funny. This is all him talking, no parental intervention.

Quickly "fan, van, fan, van, fan, van..." repeat for several minutes "Fan rhymes with Van! And what else do you know about it? A fan is like a wheel that goes around and around. A van has wheels that go around and around too!" long pause "and a car has wheels that go around and around too!" another long pause "and a fan has a wheel that goes around and around too!!" "fan, van, fan, van, fan, van..."

Sensitive readers may find the following story offensive.
"Truck. Truck. Truuuuuuuck. Truck. trucktrucktrucktrucktruck. TRUCKS. trucks trucks trucks." repeat for several minutes with every possible inflection "Trucks is a funny word. Truuuuucks." long pause "Did you stop trucking to go wee wee?" he repeated this several times, then began with "you can play with trucks after you go wee wee. you can play with dump trucks after the wee wee stops coming out of your penis. Wee wee is coming out of your penis. coming out of your penis. PENIS! penispenispenispenis... penis is a funny word. wee wee. wee wee. wee wee... wee wee is a funny word too!" Here I intervene, it might have happened sooner, but I was struggling not to crack up while he was laughing and shouting out penis. "Do you need clean pants, Ari?" Then Ari says, "No, I have clean pants and not wet pants, do you have dry pants and not wee wee pants? You have dry pants, and not wee wee pants. I DO NOT have wet wee wee pants, I have dry, not wee wee pants." silence "wee wee. wee wee bo bee bee banana fanna fo fee fee, me my mo mee mee, wee wee" laughing "is it fee fee?!" continues laughing. I let this go on for a bit longer before I change his pants. I am thinking this will be good material for when he starts dating.

The King's Nice Doggie

I actually sing all the kid songs to Ari. He likes them. For a couple of weeks, he has been singing "I had a little nut tree." If you are unfamiliar with this one, it goes:

I had a little nut tree, nothing would it bear,
but a silver nutmeg and a golden pear
The King of Spain's daughter,
came to visit me,
all for the sake of my little nut tree.

Every time I sing it back to him, he says "not sdaughter."
I couldn't figure out what he was trying to tell me. Then he says one day "it's nice doggie, nice doggie"
The king's nice doggie came to visit me.
This makes sense if you consider that he has no idea what a king, Spain, or a daughter are.