Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Feliz Navi Dad

Well, you should all be familiar with the Christmas Song, "Feliz Navi Dad." Are you all singing it in your head now as you read on ? So, the other day, Justin came home with a school project. He had been given a white piece of paper, with a snowman outline on it, and told to create a snowman. He could color it, cut it, add buttons, cottonballs, bells, or what ever he wished to do to it, and then turn it in. After careful consideration, he had decided what he wanted to do to make this snowman unique, and got to work.
When he completed his masterpiece, he informed me he now had to write something about his snowman. After telling me several times what he was going to name the snowman, I understood the snowman's name would be "Feliz Navi Dad." So, we started writing. The top of the paper said "My Snowman ....." I told him we'd then write "is named ...." It took a couple of times of explaining to him why we weren't just writing the snowman's name, that we needed to make a sentance --- "My Snowman is named ....." When I started tell him to write the name, spelling it out F E L, he interrupted me and was quite upset, telling me it started with a "P" and not an "F." I was confused. I told him I thought we were spelling "Feliz." He said "yes, mom we are. P, P, P Police Mommy Dot!"
I looked at him with a shocked look on my face, and said "Police Mommy Dot?" He said, "yes, you know, like that Christmas Song .... 'Police Mommy Dot ....... Police Mommy Dot." (Singing in the tune of "Feliz Navi Dad.")
I laughed so hard, and couldn't believe my ears! He is sure, even to this day, that he is singing it right, and doesn't want to be told any different!
--I love you Justin!

3 comments:

Unknown said...

isn't that funny how we just hear what we hear? i still sing a bunch of songs the way i heard them when i was a kid.

thanks for the smile! :)

Amanda said...

That's so funny, kids are great.

Nan said...

Well, at least he didn't get mad when you laughed. He just knows the song better than you, right? The thing that is great about having a blog is you might have forgotten to write down that story, and even if you remembered it years later, it still wouldn't be the same as what you recorded today.