We do a lot of driving at this house. Pretty much every weekend (and lots of weeknights when Ed's working) we load up the kids, stop for a coffee (if we're lucky) and hit the back roads. Ed and Jack are always on the lookout for any kind of animal and during the summer we all get a serious crop education from our resident wheat expert (seriously, for almost every wheat field we see, Ed can tell you what breed of wheat, who produced it, and whose farm it's on--this is a game the kids never get tired of!). And we do a whole lot of music-listening. Our favorite stations are Sirius' best of the 80s and best of the 90s because we know pretty much all the words to all the songs and we like to sing. Loud.
Our kids are used to it. Jemma loves it and still joins in:
Ava pretty much tunes us out. And Jack just listens patiently until Metallica comes on and then he goes crazy too. Which reminds me of what happened the other day when we had Kayte in the car and Jock Jams came on (you know the great compilation of jock songs like Whoomp, there it is, Let's get ready to rumble, and Pump up the jam, sprinkled with a couple key phrases like he.could.go.all.the.way). Ed was, of course, loving it and I looked back and Ava was apologizing to Kayte because her "dad is so weird" and Kayte just rolled her eyes at him and I flashed forward 5 years!
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Soooo funny! That's all I got, I'm still just laughin'
And the fact that you are only flashing forward 5 years instead of 10 or 15 is so scary to me. . .
Sounds like fun to me! The car is the only place we usually listen to the ol' 80's & 90's pop, so my kids always call it "traveling music."
And speaking of kids singing along with Metallica, a friend of ours introduced us to this little comedy skit a couple weeks ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5R8gSgedh4
(Sorry, about the cheesy homemade video, but still, the Pearl Jam segment cracks me up every time.)
Ha Hannah--the Pearl Jam was definitely the best!
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