A Snowman

This kid keeps me laughing.


Last week, we had the unfortunate honor of receiving a book from our friends. It was a lovely little book that plays a song ... over and over and over. Apparently, Aidan found it and since they didn't play with it anymore, they told him he could take it home. Well, today, we were reading it (singing it because that's how you HAVE to read this book), and he kept asking me, "he's a snowman?" "Is he a snowman on this page?" "He's a snowman."

"No, Aidan, it's not a snowman; can't you see it's an alligator?"

"No, a snowman."

"Look, he has a pointy alligator mouth with teeth. And he's green. And he has ridges on his back."

"Well, where's the snowman then?"

"There is NO snowman in this book, buddy."

"Yes, there is, mom. It says "A Snowman, he played one, he played knick knack on my thumb"

Uh...yeah...I was dying of laughter at that point, so he thought I was laughing at his rhymes and continued to make more of them up.

Um...I really thought he knew this song...for a year at least. Has he really been thinking it was "A Snowman" the whole time?!


(To clarify...the book is just the original song lyrics "This Old Man". Also, "unfortunate" was used a bit sarcastically. The first day it was in our home, everyone explored the cool new button, and with 4 kids, 2 parents, and friends over, that's a lot of "this old man". )

:)