Tonight I couldn't help but eavesdrop. I handed the boys over to Valerie tonight as usual and she took them to the bath. But tonight was more amusing than usual. Sound travels up the stairwell pretty clearly in the house. It was a pretty quiet bath, they're usually splashing around and making the bath toys do nose dives off the spigot with a resounding ker-splosh but not tonight. Tonight I heard Matthieu leading all three of them, Thomas, Valerie and himself, in a rather self-amused rendition of "I like to eat, eat, eat apples and bananas" (for those of you who don't know this timeless classic, it follows the structure of the title/first line swapping out the vowels of the main characters- specifically apples and bananas- with a-e-i-o-u in their respective verses)
Anyway, this tickled me not because he was getting it all wrong and simply repeating his favorite line involving 'Os' but because I'd been singing this song for the majority of the bus ride/walk home from school both to amuse the kids and to keep my mind off of the bitter cold weather we've been having lately. This public display of silliness resulting in vague looks of interest from the boys and a mixture of appreciation and apprehension from our fellow bus-riders.
I suppose it's probably not such a big deal to most of you, but it's the first really amusing story worth telling about how I'm beginning to fit in around here as a part of the boys' family.
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