Easter 2013

A day full of color, sunshine, smiles and youthful excitement.

What'sa Quarius Nana?

Joy was helping me yesterday clean up from the Easter festivities. She loves to sing. And does it all the time.
She makes up songs or sings real songs. And it always amazes me how quickly she picks up a song and sings ON KEY and LOUD!

While singing something (I wasn't paying attention to what the tune was) she stopped and asked me what a "quarius" was. HUH? "quarius" like in the song. . ."when the moon is in the 7th house". oh oh oh. that is Aquarius!

So I told her Aquarius is a man pouring water out of a jug. Then I took her to the computer and we did a Youtube search and I found the 5th Dimension version of the song. She said she had never seen it. So I was trying to figure out how she knew the song.


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She asked me if I know the movie where the guy goes "No No No " (while shaking her head back and forth) when they are going to cut his hair. Again I didn't understand what she was asking me. But on the Youtube page along the side are those clips and she pointed to one of them and said, "That one".




OOOOHHHHHHH

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She has been watching HAIR the musical.


I had to crack up. When I was in 6th grade I was in the school choir. At our spring concert we sang Aquarius & Let the Sun Shine. The year was 1969 so the song was very popular. Certain parents had a Kaniption (fit) because the song was about unholy worship (zodiac). And now my 5 year old granddaughter sings it and not only that. . . .watches the movie it was made famous in, another very controvertial performance.


The world is different.


Yes that is Tommy Lee Jones in a musical. BWAHHHHH

American Slang

Grandpa has an affinity for leading the conversation with little kids making them fess up to things most parents would be embarrassed to have them say. I saw this happen years ago when (then 4 year old) niece Keely had a lengthy conversation about toilets and toilet paper with “Uncle Jerry”.

It is almost like Art Linkletter, for those of us in the older generation, or Bill Cosby for those younger, relatively speaking of course.

Given the opportunity to take one 3 year old granddaughter to the birthday party of another granddaughter we said yes. While on the drive Grandpa asked Joy if she would like to see a Weiner get plugged into the wall and cooked. We had been talking about dinner food and this was a logical conversation.

Actually he used the word Weinie.

Joy did not respond immediately. She has learned that Grandpa is silly. He likes to call her Sarah, Susan, Korban, all sorts of names just to get her to say “Grandpa, I’m JOY”.
I could see her little brain trying to figure out this new name game he was playing.

The joke was on Grandpa this time. Over and Over he kept asking about cooking a Weinie. I told him to stop using that word, then he used the word HOT DOG. She understood then.

I asked her. . . .”Joy, what is a Weinie?” Knowing what was going to happen.

“That’s what a boy uses to go pee pee.”

It is rare to see Jerry crackup.

You can just imagine the pictures in Joy’s mind when he asked if she wanted to see a Weinie get plugged into the wall and cooked!!!