Party of Five: And that's how I ended up listening to Christmas music in my van in June

Noah's toe hurts.

His skin is a bit cracked, and thus I've been wrapping his toe in a bandaid for the last few days.

About a week ago, I pickup a new pack of band-aids at Meijer. They had Muppets on them. I'm a sucker for Muppets.

Noah liked the Muppet band-aids, but really only the ones with Animal or Gonzo on them.

The kid's got good taste. Those are my favorites too.

Anyway, a few days ago, I was getting the kids ready, decided Noah still needed a bandage on his poor toe, and pulled out the Muppet box.

We were all out of Animal and Gonzo bandages. We had a whole ton of Miss Piggy band-aids, quite a few of the two grumpy old guys in the theater, and several Kermits. Noah was disappointed. He really really REALLY wanted an Animal band-aid.

I kept searching. I found one Swedish Chef, and then I stumbled across a Beaker one.

I happen to love Beaker.

I tried to sell Noah on the Beaker band-aid.

I relayed one of my favorite Beaker moments, his line in the John Denver and the Muppets' version of The Twelve Days of Christmas.

You see, kids, Beaker has this scientist friend (I couldn't remember his name) (but it's Dr. Bunson thanks to my friends at Google), but the only thing that Beaker ever says is "Meep". And see, all the Muppets, they each sing a verse in the Twelve Days of Christmas song, only when Beaker sings his part, he just sings, "meep meep meep meep meep meep" and it's really funny.

I demonstrated for them.

See, the scientist friend sings, "On the ninth day of Christmas,"

And then Beaker goes, "meep meep meep meep meep meep"

Get it?

To my utter delight, the boys loved it. Even with my pitiful rendition of the song as their only reference. They started singing the song to each other. They would switch back and forth, one of them being "the scientist" and the other one being Beaker.

They Meeped all the way to school. For two days in a row.

This morning, we got to school a bit early, and after having listened to the boys meeping in the backseat for the last twenty minutes, I decided it was high time they heard the actual version of the song.

I whipped out my iPhone and found the song on iTunes.

We listened.

We giggled hysterically at the meeping.

And also when Miss Piggy belted out her "Ba Dum Bum BUM" during the five golden rings part.

That song always makes me happy.

Even when it's June.

And finally, here's some pictures of the last day of first grade / pre-school: