Singing

While we were driving the other day A announced to me that, "Some people ARE NOT NICE!" She was adamant.  I answered, "Most people are very nice."  She countered, "No K, says NO!  Some people ARE NOT NICE!"  Hmmmmmm.....I wasn't sure where this was coming from so, "Why did K say that?"  A answered, "At the store some people ARE NOT NICE!"  A will be three next month.

Ah ha!  She had fallen asleep on the way to the store the other day so I asked K to sit with her.  Well of course she woke up about two minutes after I left.  She loves the grocery store.  Actually she loves shopping for anything, but she has to settle for Fred Meyer because that is about the extent of what we have in our little town.  She wanted K to take her in, but he explained (wisely) that you have to be with your mama in the grocery store because some people are not nice.  A really took this to heart, but I didn't want her to be afraid of people. 

So as we drove I casually made up a little song.  "People and nice, people are good, I like people-people-people oooooohhhhhhh I like people-people-people..."  I went on, and the song was pretty zippy (probably have some music industry scouts on my tail already, uh media).  Anyway, A was feeling pretty contrary because she kind of hijacked my song and carried on with her own.  I quickly (and safely) whipped out my camera to catch some of her musical genius for posterity.

When I could get a word in I tried to steer back to my happy lesson on liking people.  But A could not be swayed.  She quickly jumped back in:

By now I was enjoying her version so much that when she stopped all she needed was a little nudge from me.  So I sang about two or three words from my people song and that was all A needed.  She bullied her way back in: