Oh, if all of school were as much fun as kindergarten! Today was Crazy Color Day for Joe, as a celebration of finishing a unit on colors. The kids were to wear as many colors as possible, and they did fun, colorful stuff (like eating geen eggs and ham) all day. Joe was going to wear our rainbow clown wig but decided it was too itchy, so this was his color. Erin has dubbed this Joe's "hemigana" shirt. (WARNING: This is one of those long stories that might only be amusing to the parents of the children in the story. Proceed at your own risk.) Erin calls all sunsets and sunrises "hemigana's" because of the song that is sung in the opening of The Lion King. In the movie, as the sun rises over the African savannah, African voices can be heard chanting, "Hemigana, hemigana-yana, hemigana, hemigana-yana..." (At least that's how it sounds to us.) Erin first started calling real sunsets in the sky hemigana's, but the first time she saw Joe wearing this shirt, she yelled, "Hemigana!" And she still notices it today. The first thing she said when she saw Joe this morning and again after school was, "Hemigana!" Aren't family jokes so neat? If Erin had never come into our family, we would have never known about hemigana shirts.
3 comments:
Isn't it wonderful that Erin recognizes that sunrises and sunsets are the same phenomena? And naming things observed as related is one of the earliest forms of science. Not to mention the joy of playing with language. Or perhaps, just playing!
And the green eggs and ham sound fun, too.
AB
Oh, how we love a good hemigana!
Great story about the sunsets & the shirts! And it's always weird to imagine life without the youngest...
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