Thursday, June 16, 2011

You'll Never Know, Dear . . .

Alvin has been putting Miles to bed lately. Lucky Miles gets a good long bedtime routine:


  • brush teeth
  • practice sitting on the potty
  • diaper and jammies on
  • story
  • recite the First Article of Faith
  • prayer
  • song

Miles asked Alvin to sing the train song, which Alvin doesn't know, so he made one up: You Are My Sunshine with a few key words like train, coming down the tracks, and honk. I love listening to Alvin improvise! This is the best part of my day.

Last night, Alvin went to the grocery store to pick up some things for his Ragnar Relay this weekend. (Good luck on those 15 uphill miles!) So I put Miles to bed. When it came time to sing a song, I told him I'd sing the train song. He asked for something, and had to repeat it four or five times before I finally understood: "Train Sunshine." He wanted me to sing Alvin's Train Sunshine song! I had a great time trying to make up my own version.

1 comment:

Angela said...

This was so cute! You're making me look forward to those toddler years. I think Alvin is going to have to grace us with "Sunshine Train" next time we see you guys!