Flounder Blues

Ok, I know some of you are here for the kids and some of you are here for the knitting. Today... you get neither! Tough tahooties, get over it. You get of Pickles & Blues instead. Market rambles.
So- remember when John and I had date night last week? We headed over to the Tailgate Market Fundraiser. Bill, the Pickle Guy, also has a jazz band and they played for us. We thoroughly enjoyed Bill's band and the songs... so much so that John bought the CD. It's been in our car ever since.
This morning I worked the market for Summer, since she could not man her Felicitea booth. Well, I set up right beside Bill and ate pickles all morning. Yum. REAL pickles, cultured, fermented and no vinegar. Yep... yummy. I even came home with a jar of pickled green tomatoes. Seriously, good.
Anyway, over the course of the morning I told him how much we like the Flounder Blues... and he let me know there was a music video for it. It's not huge and fancy, but it is fun. I like the imagery I get in my head a bit better, so listen to it once without peeking... but the video is cute, and I just have to share. Of course, if you don't like the idea of going fishing or gigging... well, then you might not like the video.
I wonder if we can find some flounder for dinner now...

Sick Day Story Time

There seems to be some sort of plot to keep us from going to story time at the library. We've been a whopping twice in all the kid's days. Every time we are set and ready to go something happens, like they take a break for a month - or we get sick. Like today. We were all set for the 10:30 story time for Dory, and um, well... she's got a cold. It came on hard and fast last night.
So, I told her we would have our first one right here at home at the same time today.
Here was the program:

A, B, C, D, E by Justin Roberts on Great Big Sun
We handed out the shakey-shakies (egg rattles) and sang our ABCs.

The Z was Zapped by Chris Van Allsburg
Dory named each letter. Jack tried.

Number 1 by Hot Peas and Butter from Jack's Big Music Show, Season 1
Everyone did a boogie dance to the song.

Planting a Rainbow by Lois Ehlert
We talked about the difference between seeds and bulbs.

Mahna, Mahna from Muppet Hits (sorry, no link... )
Tried to clap the rhythm. It's a bit hard...

Hush!: A Thai Lullaby by Minfong Ho
Everyone joined in on the "Hush!" and we practiced some signs for the different animals and words we knew.

If You've Got 1 by Justin Roberts from Great Big Sun
We did all of the motions the song suggested. :) It was fun.

As they "put away" the rattles I ran upstairs, grabbed a rubber stamp and pad and met them in the hallway as they "left" and passed out pretty yellow daisy stamps to match the Growing a Rainbow book.

Our first mock story time was considered a huge success since Dory and Jack wandered around for 5 minutes showing everyone they could their stamps... including the dog.