Our friends, The Yandles, posted this on their blog recently. Our children became insanely jealous after watching it and made a response. Here are both very LONG videos for your enjoyment. Apologies if the song stays in your head for the next week!
KUNG FU YANDAS
PRATT REPLY
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This post was written by Steve Pratt on February 16, 2009
Spiderman and Little Red Riding Hood went out with their friends (Ben - Spiderman #2, and Bella - Fairy Princess) and canvassed the Main St. neighbourhood for sugar, salt, and fat last night. The horrid forecast was totally wrong - it was actually pretty great - warm temperatures, no rain, and LOTS of candy.
Today, however, is another story. The Day After has so far been a wee bit of a disaster. Sugar-addled maniacs with short attention spans, wound up like a top, fighting with each other, and all with the volume turned up to 11.
So to burn some of the crazy energy, I took the kids out to the beach for a bike ride / dog walk this morning and it was LITERALLY over two hours of non-stop, stream-of-consciousness babbling and an endless loop of annoying children’s songs blended together into the most annoying audio experience I’ve ever had…
B-I-N-G-O, B-I-N-G-O, B-I-N-G-O, and Bingo was his name-o…
A doe, a deer, a female dear…
Trick or treat, smell my feet, give me something good to eat. If you don’t, I don’t care, I’ll pull down your underwear…
Little boxes, on the hillside, and they’re all made out of ticky-tacky and they all look just the same (we’ve been watching Weeds!)
Hush little lovebug, don’t say a word - the moon’s in the sky and the nighthawk is heard…
B-I-N-G-O, B-I-N-G-O…
A doe, a deer, a female deer…
There’s pink one, and a yellow one, and…
I’ll pull down your underwear.AND ON AND ON AND ON…
AAAAAAH! It’s like having an insane person standing on your shoulder talking into your ear ALL THE TIME.
You know how sometimes evil things are described as “The Perfect Killing Machine?” (Terminator, Dick Cheney, etc)
On days like this, I think of small children as the universe’s “Perfect Annoying Machine“- efficient, effective, and completely focused on their mission to drive their elders bonkers.
I just wish that for special occassions like The Day After Halloween that the wee ones came with a mute button. (Yes, I know I’m a heartless, horrible father…)
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This post was written by Steve Pratt on November 1, 2008
Cedar has recently become obsessed with money. I think it’s because she’s wanted several toys, including something called a Canadian girl that costs about $100 (!), and we’ve told her to wait until her birthday and Christmas. She’s become frustrated that she can’t get what she wants exaclty when she wants it and has decided that getting lots and lots of money is the solution to all her problems. (Scary how early that gets ingrained…).
Cedar and I began bargaining - she wanted me to give her $100 for doing nothing. I told her that you don’t just get money for free because you want it - you have to earn it. If she wants money, she has to do something of value, like chores. I also told her that no matter how many chores she did, I would never give her $100. Maybe $1.
After about 15 minutes of hard-core negotiations, we came up with a win-win solution yesterday. Cedar rubbed my feet for 5 minutes and I gave her 65 cents.
The Maggot is infuriated. (She claims its horrible that I paid our daughter money to rub my feet, but I think she’s just jealous that she didn’t think of it first.)
Posted under Cedar News, Children, Humour
This post was written by Steve Pratt on September 21, 2008
