Post-dinner Entertainment

We had 3 categories of post-dinner entertainment tonight: singing with a trumpet, unrestrained dancing, stories about famous games played in my basement. Firstly, to speak to the last first, Rhiannon introduced the children to a game called “who can run around the island the most times”. One game: 3 players; get ready, one at a time, get set, go. Michael is the winner of the game. 151 times before he stopped. Betty stopped to tell me that she wants to play the game tonight so that she can beat yesterday’s record. “I got a pain right here, yesterday,” Betty says, touching her lungs with her fist and looking into my eyes with terror at the pain of thinking of that run yesterday. I think to myself that she should just start today’s run with the number where she left off yesterday. Is there anything wrong with beginning the count using a cumulative number?

Arta. Sumarga, and Sumin reading

Some of the pages of the book may be taped together by now.
That is what happens to a well loved, well used book.

The second kind of tonight’s entertainment involves beginning with the Rhiannon’s trumpet and we get to sing every tune from the Lethbridge Grade VI band; “Old MacDonald had a Farm”, “The Camptown Races”, and “There was a Dog Who Had a Name”.

Fifteen minutes of crooning with a beginner’s trumpet and the kids know all of the songs, for we have been singing them out of a book that has picture from the United States National Museum at this level.

Fabulous pictures and Richard and Miranda’s kids love it that they know all of the songs.

We do all the most famous dances: the Crabwalk, the Dental Floss Move, the cartwheel move -- I love it that the 8, 6 and 4 year old feel as though the moves belong to them. Rhiannon didn’t know most of the moves but she could follow along. “Name a move!” “We can do it.”

Now, that’s entertainment!