Where in the World are the Richardsons?: Songtime with Lillie

Saturday, December 27, 2008

Songtime with Lillie

In our house, ever since Juliet was born, it seems as though someone has always been singing ... as Annie says "My life is one big musical!" This has not stopped with Lillie. She's thoroughly enjoyed learning new songs at school and making up new ones at home. However, no matter how hard she tries, they often are just a bit off. Here are a few of our favorite "Lillie versions" of some of the all-time classics:

1. "Baa Baa black sheep how are you? Yassir yassir 3 bags full. One for my master and one for the little girl that lives down the street." Who knew Yassir Arafat doubled as a shepherd?

2. "On the first day of Christmas true love gave to be, a partridge in a tree. On the Tuesday of Christmas, true love gave to me ... something else."

3. "We wish you a Merry Christmas, we wish you a Merry Chistmas, and a Happy New You!" Apparently she's sending a shoutout to those of us looking for a little plastic surgery in 2009.

4. "Old McDonald had a farm, and on that farm he had some whores." We wonder if Mrs. McDonald knows what's going on out in the barn?

1 comments:

Jen Mall said...: I got to talk to Juliet and Lillie the other day! Loved it! I should have asked her to sing! We missed getting to see you for Christmas! I hope we are still in town (not on vacation in Belize) when ya'll finally do get to come home!!!
Love and miss ya'll!; December 30, 2008 at 12:49 PM

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And so my prayer is that your story will have involved some leaving and some coming home, some summer and some winter... My hope is your story will be about changing...about learning to love a child...about learning to love others more than we love ourselves... We get one story, you and I, and one story alone. God has established the elements, the setting and the climax and the resolution. It would be a crime not to venture out, wouldn't it?... And you will not be alone. You have never been alone. Don't worry. Everything will still be here when you get back. It is you who will have changed.

-Donald Miller, Through Painted Deserts

Juliet's Quotes (Seeing China through the eyes of a 5 Year Old)

“You have to sit up front and you CANNOT talk to me.” – Instructing Annie the other day when she had to ride the school bus with Juliet because she had a meeting at the school.
"Huh, yea, we have rice every day." - responding to Annie's foolish question, "Did you have rice with your hotdog today?"
"Well, you didn't tell her you were my mom, so I think she thought you were the cleaner ... you know ... of our house." - when talking with Annie after she had met one of Juliet's new friends at school.
"It's hotter than Hell here, Gigi!" - when explaining the extreme heat and humidity of Shanghai to her grandmother (we don't know where she hears these things...)
"We just need to end all this nonsense and stop going out at night." - referring to our latest shopping excursion (see "Searching for a Princess Bike")
"What's a bidet?" - questioning the other toilet-looking contraption in the bathroom
"Ahhh that feels good" - said in a deep rumbling voice as she was referring to our massage chair the landlord left for us.
"Man, it's like these people have never seen a girl before" - referring to the hundreds of people gawking at her during an IKEA outing.
"This guy drives really slow" - referring to our driver, Mr. Chen, after 3 minutes in the car with him on day one.

By the Numbers

3 - number of stays in a Chinese children's hospital
2 - Number of Typhoons we've weathered
1 - Number of lightning strikes in our front yard
41 - Number of stoplights between our house and Scott's office
10 - Number of thermostats in our house - one for about every 380 square feet
3 - Number of English words our driver speaks (Hello, OK, Bye-Bye)
8 - Gallons of sweat secreted by the three of us during the first five minutes of arriving in steamy Shanghai
96 - Number of keys we have to our home