Our little lady has a really funny, oblivious way with words sometimes. A few days ago on our way upstairs, she asked me, "Hey Dad, you wanna do a hammer-up?"
"A 'hammer-up'???" I asked, "what's a --"
And then I realized what she meant. A few days ago I introduced her to the old improvisational comedy television show "Who's Line Is It Anyway?" in which various comedians spontaneously make up dramas or ditties based on cues and suggestions from the audience. Evangelina & I have long had fun with rhymes and spontaneous poetic chants, and she's had a funny knack for it, so I thought she might take a special liking to one of the TV show's games called "Hoedown," in which the comedians have to make up lines to a given hoedown song on a spontaneously given topic.
Apparently, she'd forgotten what the game was called!
Maybe I'll sing this not-quite-so-spontaneous hoe-down for her tomorrow:
On our way upstairs, my girl looked up at me,
"Can we sing together, oh please oh please Daddy?
Let do that thing that often makes us rather stumped
I forget now what it's called, was it a 'Hammer-Up'?
sample of the show: Whose line is it anyway - Season 1 hoedowns part 1
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