Culture or Corruption

About two weeks ago Ashley came home from school and in our "How was your day" discussion she told me that one of her teachers was going to be bringing in a movie for the kids to watch the next day. When I asked her what movie she told me "Newsies". Although I have it in my VHS collection it's never been one I put in for the kids to watch, however there are a few tunes that I have on the computer and sing along to regularly. So when she told me that they were going to be watching the movie I told her that was the movie where the strange songs that Mommy sings randomly around the house. I also pulled out the movie and showed her the beginning scene with one of the songs and she was really looking forward to it the next day. When she got home she said they didn't watch Newsies because another student brought in Shrek the Third. So again during our "How was your day" conversation she asked me if we could watch it when we got home. I figured it was a Disney movie, no problem - it would be fun to go down memory lane since I can't remember the last time I had watched it.

So when we got home and dinner was made we sat at the coffee table and put the movie in. I figured the kids would watch it and probably lose interest halfway through if I was lucky to make it that far. To my surprise they both LOVED it and they are now both randomly singing the songs from the movie. It has now become Jack's night night movie and he watches it every night. His favorite part is when the song "I'm the King of New York" comes on but since it's so far in the movie he never makes it that far. But he makes up for it because he sings the one line over and over again all day long. Although we're still working on his pronounciation. He sings it as "I'm the King of mumble York" but it's all jumbled together, it's cute to listen to. His other favorite part is when one of the characters is singing he does a motion with his hands which Jack imitates when he tries to sing that part of the song too.

Ashley has also now been exposed to "Singin in the Rain" starring the great Gene Kelly. So since we were on the musical kick she had asked about the movie with the "Yes Yes Yes - No No No" scene. Although we kept her up past her bed time, she was schooled in yet another musical. She enjoyed it, not as much as Newsies though.

I figured we'll give it some time for the kids to move past Newsies and I'll introduce their next musical. I think it's culture but John thinks it's corruption.