Books on Tape

We don't have a CD player in either car, so we joyfully receive lots of hand-me-down tapes. The current favorite is the Johanna Spyri classic, "Heidi," read very pleasantly by a London actress. Once Evelyn was walking around in a filmy lingerie top from her dress-up bin and I told her she had to put on something warmer. She balked and I insisted and then the screaming ensued, "But I want to be a FIGGER!! A white FIGGER!!!"

"You want to be a what?" I ask, much confused.

"A FIGGER!!! Like in Heidi when there is a white FIGGER on the stairs," referring to the scene where Heidi sleepwalks in her nightgown & Clara's household thinks it is a ghost. On our tape, the narrator says it in her perfect British accent: "And there appeared a white FIGURE on the stairs."

Then there's listening to the "Annie" soundtrack. We've discussed the appropriate & inappropriate times to talk about butts and bottoms and and various bodily functions. It never fails that when Annie sings "The sun'll come out, tomorrow, bet your bottom dollar..." both girls yell, in their best nanny-nanny-boo-boo tones, "She said BOTTOM! Awwwwwwwwwwwwwww! Annie said BOTTOM!!" Thus begin the lessons on multiple definitions and context.