Sign Language

I arrived at my son's school today about fifteen minutes early to pick him up, so my daughter and I sat in the car and listened to a Wiggles CD. One of her favorite tracks, Where Is Thumbkin?, started playing and I turned in my seat to do the hand gestures with her.

The song starts out with:

Where is thumbkin?
Where is thumbkin?
Here I am.
Here I am.
How are you today, friend?
Very well, I thank you.
Run away.
Run away.

I played along with the song, sticking my thumb up in the air and waving it about like a finger puppet, bowing, and then making it run away behind the head rest. My daughter loved it and started imitating me.

The next part of the song introduces "Pointer".... Where is Pointer? Where is Pointer? Here I am... etc.

We happily waved our pointer fingers all around in front of us, then made them run away.

You get where this story is going?

Next up is "Tall One"...

So here we are waving our middle fingers around, only mine is hidden between the two front seats while my daughter's is right next to the window. I looked over at the car next to us and noticed a woman frowning disapprovingly.

I can just imagine what she said to her husband that night: "The world is going to hell. Today I was flipped off by a 4-year-old!"