Thursday, March 5, 2009

Sing Us a Song You're a Dinosaur

Posted by Abby Marie at 3:12 PM

For those of you who don't already know, I have a new niece!! My sister Betsy had a little girl yesterday afternoon: Afton Anderson. I got to see her in the hospital yesterday and she is adorable. I helped my mom watch Betsy's other two children, Porter and Reid yesterday and today. This morning we were watching Little Einstein's (on Disney I think). They always have a classical song that they base their episodes after. Today they turned dinosaurs into musical instruments to tell their heroic story. The Piccolodactyl (instead of pteradactyl) had a baby who was scared away by the Bass-asaurus Rex (T-Rex). It was up to the little einstein's to play their own piccolo to find the lost baby piccolodactyl. I've been thinking all day about the different kind of musical dinosaurs I could create. I came up with triangle-tops, Tuba-saurus, and Viola-Raptor. It's strangely entertaining.

The other day I was walking to institute in a skirt, with my scriptures in hand. It was dark and I was walking fast. I walked up behind an older, heavier set professor-looking man who could have easilybroken my arm. He turned and looked at me really quick, and then looked straight ahead. Then he turned again and said "I thought you were going to catch me and mug me!" I laughed and just said, "nope, not me!" It was really funny.

My sister Hannah got mad at me for not posting any of the pictures she took of herself with my camera over President's Day weekend, so these are for her:




5 comments:

Andy Porter said...

Hey, I don't blame him. You might be small, but you're pretty tough too. I'll bet you could mug just about anybody if you felt like it. I like The Little Einsteins. I think it's entertaining. Especially the part where you get to pat your legs really fast to get their plane going. Such a clever idea. I mean think of the energy savings. HELLO!! Someone should talk to Obama.

March 5, 2009 at 10:38 PM
Valerie said...

Hannah, you have nice teeth! Maybe you should be a tooth model for a living.

Abby, I agree with Andy that you are tough even if your are wearing a skirt and holding scriptures.

March 6, 2009 at 8:51 PM
Marcindra LaPriel said...

I'm trying to think of some witty dinosaur/instrument name and I can't because there is an image of a Viola-Raptor in the way.

And I am a big fan of your paintings in the previous post.

March 8, 2009 at 6:59 PM
Betsy said...

Hannah--I can't see your epiglottis!

March 10, 2009 at 5:23 PM
Hannah said...

Oh- why did I never comment on this? Thanks for posting my beautiful pics! I think my uvula is one of my best features and like to show it off whenever possible. yea, Betsy, it's only on special occasions that I show off the epiglottis too. Maybe next time.

April 4, 2009 at 10:49 PM

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