Year of writing 130. Lyrical girl.

5/10/12

   Today I noticed a new trend for Isla.  She likes to take the lyrics to some song we've been singing, and incorporate it into whatever she's doing.  Basically, she's sampling already - and I think it's pretty rad.  The first one I noticed was this morning when she was running around the rocks on our front lawn. She was singing the chorus to "Leroy Brown" by Jim Croce, only she thinks it is "Amigo Brown," and that ranks a 14 on a scale of cuteness, so I've never corrected her.  As she ran around, this is what she sang: "I'm bad, bad Amigo brown, I run around, I run around. These are my rocks, they don't fight, they just sit on the grass because I'm Amigo Brown." 

   The second iteration of this new phenomenon happened while she was in her room playing with all of her little animal figurines. We've been listening a lot to Chad Van Gaalen's "Willow Tree," and she reimagined the lyrics thusly: " I sleep all day, I'm a tiger by the doggy.  / I hang my clothes, actually I don't have clothes./ When I die, I hide my head inside the jungle trees / when I'm dead that's when I'll be hungry."

   Finally, at dinner, while pretending to be Harry Potter, she took the classic Death Cab For Cutie track, "I'll follow you into the dark" and did this:  "Hermione, I'll follow you into the dark for dinner."  All in tune.  I really hope this continues - she could bring back "Who's line is it anyway,"  and give Wayne Brady a run for his money.