Snickering

We have a few songs we sing with Ava at bedtime and one of them is "Jesus Loves The Children." Greg taught the first verse to Ava and me (I'd never heard of it). The song goes something like this:

"Jesus loves all the little children

All the children of the world

Black and yellow, red and white

They're precious in sight

Jesus loves the little children of the world."

One night, Greg wasn't home at bedtime and Ava wanted to sing that song. I sang it to her, butchering the line with the colors because I couldn't remember the order, adding in ridiculous colors like purple and snickering through it at the images of purple children in my head. So then it went on - every time I sang it, I invented the colors and laughing all the while. 

Last night, Ava said she wanted to sing it herself. As she got to the line with the colors, she snickered through it just like I always do. It set me off laughing because she probably doesn't know the colors in that line either because I never sang it correctly or even coherently!

I have fun with Ava sometimes, rapping the story of Cinderella, purposely butchering different songs, changing tunes, etc. Greg is usually entertained, too...