For Your Entertainment

So the girls just turned 21 months old. I know the karma gods are probably going to smite me for saying this, but dang, they sure are fun right now. I mean, no offense, Leah and Riley, but you used to be pretty frickin' boring. You'd make a funny face once in awhile when you were pooping or something, but otherwise your entertainment value was pretty low. I mean, that's okay, you were concentrating on important stuff like eating and growing and barfing and drooling, but man, watching you used to be a pretty mind-numbing experience.

But the girls have been talking up a storm lately, and as a result the girls are oh-so-much more fun to watch. I mean, it's like every day is an episode of "Full House", with our very own twins saying cute things instead of the Olsen Twins! Um, except, ya know, funny:

[Open Scene]

[Leah and Riley are playing in the kitchen.]

[Leah suddenly stops playing, freezing completely in her tracks.]

Leah (eyes bulging): [grunts]

[pause]

[Leah starts playing again.]

[Riley pauses. She sniffs the air tentatively.]

Riley (frowning and fleeing the room): Stinky!

[Freeze frame on Leah's sheepish grin. Cue audience laughter. Cue wacky sitcom music.]

[End Scene]

Oh c'mon, that's comedy gold right there! No? Hm. Maybe you had to be there.

And then there are the songs. Leah and Riley are big into singing right now, and hearing their songs is one of those things that melts a parent's heart into a mushy pulp. Although musically speaking, it's pretty awful stuff - their 21-month old voices are all out of tune and their songs speed up and slow down with no attention paid to normal musical conventions like time signature and rhythm! And their enunciation! Awful!

Here's my transcription of their recent rendition of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star":

Tway-koh, Tway-koh, Luhd-uh-Stah!
How-why wunna wachoo ah!
Uppa Budda Wuh Ssss Hiyyyyyyy
Ike a Dime-Un In a Skyyyyyyyy
Tway-koh, Luh-Stah-Wunna-Whutchu-Ahhhhh!

It's got a Michael Stipe quality to it, actually. I've tried to capture this on film a few times, because it's pretty freaking awesome, but they never do it quite when I want them to do it. Here's the best we've captured so far, courtesy of Riley:



Needs some work, but hey, we'll let it slide for now.