Call It What You Want...

Oh when the six
Go Marching Eight
Oh when the six go marching eight
Oh I don't know the number
When the six go marching eight

(Sung to the tune of "I Have Decided to Follow Jesus")

Simple Simon, Don't you worry
Simple Simon, Don't you worry
Simple Simon, Don't you worry.
No Turning back, no turning back

Adam was taking a little by-himself respite in his bedroom, and so I thought it was the perfect opportunity to mop the kitchen floor and get up all those things he's left there over the past few days. I told Mark to stay off the kitchen floor so it could dry, but of course, that was when he needed to come into the family room.

No, I told him. Walking on the floor will get your socks all wet.

A few minutes later, he asked again, from the edge of the kitchen floor (not on it) closest to the family room door.

"Can I come into the family room?" he asked.

Really. The floor was dry by now. "Okay," I told him, "the floor is dry now."

Then I looked. He had taken off his socks so that they wouldn't get wet.

Have I mentioned lately how LITERAL three-year-olds are????

I laughed until I had tears in my eyes, and told him that he could walk on the floor if he needed to.

And, dear readers, thank you for your participation in Identify Those Lyrics! I liked the Home on the Range suggestion, but I think you'll laugh when I tell you it's the next verse (who knows which verse in the grand order of the song) from "When the Saints Go Marching In" (also known as "When the Six Goes Marching In"):

   "Oh when the band
   Begins to play
   Oh when the bamboo gets to play...
   Oh how I want to be in that number
   When the bamboo gets to play!"

Here's another installment in "name the actual lyrics" in the three-year-old's song repertoire...

"When the bamboo gets to play"

And after you figure that one out (I'll try to remember to put it in the comments later for those who are stumped), here's one to make you laugh:

"Evil evil little star, how I wonder what you are..."

(He does really know it's "Twinkle." He just likes the word "evil.")

For those who lose track; here are the previous installments in the series:
The first installment and
The second.

Now. Do I have any players?