Mother Goose

For the entire month of February Sophia studied Mother Goose nursery rhymes at school. Each day she came home with a creative craft like a blue horn on Little Boy Blue day, a set of mittens for Three Little Kittens day and my personal favorite a mouse on a stick for Hickory Dickory Dock day.

We have a Barney DVD called Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes. Imagine that! We have a Barney movie for every holiday, shape, color, season, theme, you name it... Well, anyway, I randomly decided to play a Barney movie for Lillian last week and picked our Mother Goose DVD and let me tell you - Sophia was glued to the tv screen watching it and asking for it again. It was a fabulous review of all the hard work she did in February learning about new nursery rhymes. I was really happy for her.

But here's the funny part. In the Barney movie there is a girl trying to complete her homework assignment of writing a nursery rhyme. There are a few children spying through a window on this young maiden dressed like Mother Goose to get her inspiration. The young girl is scribbling on a piece of paper then she crinkles it up and tosses it over her shoulder.

As the spying children are watching they start singing:
Have you ever seen a lassie, a lassie, a lassie
Have you ever seen a lassie go this way and that?
Go this way and that way and that way and this way
Have you ever seen a lassie go this way and that?

Sophia thinks the name of this girl is Alassie! Isn't that a scream? She put this outfit on earlier today and told me she was Alassie dressed like Mother Goose. HA!

She's even has named one of her dolls Alassie and another doll Anassie. They are sisters.