(while eating dinner)
LR: (singing) We all live in a yellow submarine!
RJ: I know that song! I love that song!
LR and RJ: (joyously singing together) We all live in a yellow submarine!
RJ: (after the cacaphony quiets down) When I was a little kid (in Malaysia), we used to sing that song all the time… But it was a bit different. It was about a blue submarine.
After a month of singing along to the soundtrack in the car, as well as learning about it in music class, Sunday afternoon finally arrived. Grammy and Poppa took us to see the full production of Cats (Australian cast).
We all loved it. Fantastic show!
Oh well I never! Was there ever a cat so clever as Magical Mr. Mistofelees!
At the end of the year, the kids have a seemingly endless run of concerts and exhibitions. RJ has been working on his song for a while and finally had his big concert. He did a fantastic job and got a massive round of applause.
RJ takes a bow.
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(in the car, on the way to school)
RJ: Can I sing a song for you?
Dad: Sure RJ. Which one?
RJ: Puff the magic whale. It’s like the other song but it has different words.
Dad: Go ahead mate.
RJ: He was stuck by the sea, and he had to dig a hole… a BIG one. It was whale shaped. Then he got back to the ocean.
Dad: Okay. You can sing it now.
RJ: (singing)
Puff the magic whale,
lived in the sea.
And chased some fish
and other things.
And splashed them with his tail! Oh!
Puff, the magic whale….(He continued on with a bit about pirates and lots more splashing. It got decidedly weird when it transitioned into Puff the Magic Sunscreen… )
RJ: (singing) Old MacDonald had a farm. Eee eye eee eye oh!
And on that farm he had a cow. Eee eye eee eye oh!
With a moo-moo here, and a moo-moo there. Here a moo, there a moo everywhere a moo-moo.
Old MacDonald had a farm, Eee eye eee eye oh!
RJ: And after that he ate the pig and the sheep and the duck too!
Run fellas! Old Mac-D is on the way!
