India to Nashville: Friday, Friday, Gotta Get Down on Friday!!!

I teach a little girl named Hannah. She's 4. She makes up wild, fun, imaginative stories and asks about 397 questions a day. She has a little brother, Sammy, who always wants to wrestle and roar in her face. She also has a baby sister named Phoebe, who we affectionately call "Pheebes" and who has one giant curl on the top of her head like a "who" from a Dr. Suess book.

Anyway, Hannah didn't really want to have school today. So I quickly tried to motivate her by saying that in honor of Friday we were going to review the letter "D" and have a little dance party. What did we dance to? None other than the Rebecca Black friday song...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfVsfOSbJY0

Granted, I only showed her the beginning of the video, stopping at the part where she sings about "partyin'!" haha! Tonight when I overheard her teaching Sammy the song before they went to sleep, I couldn't help but crack up...especially when Kari (her mom) said she'd been singing it all day! Kari loves all the things I teach Hannah because she repeats everything over and over :) Ok, maybe it's me who loves torturing Kari with all those things...

Anyway, she gave me permission to teach Hannah more of the song so she wouldn't just keep repeating "Friday, Friday, Gotta get down on Friday" over and over and over :) Get ready, Hannah, next Friday you're gonna be "partyin', partyin', YEAH!" I can't wait! I'll have to get a video of it fo sho!

Here's some pics from this week with the kids before bedtime...I've spent the night all week with them while their dad was out of town. I learn so much from Kari and the way she loves her kids, from singing and talking about Jesus during bath time to being consistent in disciplining them to taking the time to just be with them (reading, tickling, playing). What a gem she is! I hope I am half the mom someday to my kids that she is to those sweet "birds," as she calls them :)