Part of Aidan's sleep routine now includes singing him a song that, as I understand it, was sung to many McJannet children and grandchildren. His Papa Bill sang it to him when we were in Ireland last March. It's sung to the tune of "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" -- I am pretty sure we have taken creative license with the lyrics! Depending on how tired we are when we sing to Aidan at night and how high we count up. (You get the gist once you see the lyrics), the words are sometimes never the same as the last time we sang it. I'm sure Paul uses words I don't and vice versa.
Numbers after 10 are the hardest. The highest I've counted is 13. I pretty much say, "I don't know a word that rhymes with 13, and they all go marching down..." Usually, I just start at one again until he finally drops off to sleep. Any suggestions?
Here's the song:
The ants go marching one by one hurrah, hurrah
The ants go marching one by one hurrah, hurrah
The ants go marching one by one, one of them stops to chew some gum
And they all go marching down... to the earth... to get out... of the rain, dum, dum dum, dum ,dum dum dum...
And so on.
Two by two: one of them stops to tie his shoe
Three by three: one of them stops to take a pee
Four by four: one of them stops to lock the door
Five by five: one of see a big beehive
Six by six: one of them stops to buy some Twix
Seven by seven: they hope they all go to heaven
Eight by eight: one of them always cleans his plate
Nine by nine: their looking good and their feeling fine
Ten by ten: when their done, they'll do it again
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