No Cake!
A week or so ago, Natalie and I were in the car listening to the Laurie Berkner version of the song “She’ll Be Comin’ Round the Mountain.” During the verse where Laurie sings “We will all have cake and ice cream when she comes, yum yum…” Natalie started urgently saying, “No! No! No!”
I turned the volume down and said, “What’s the matter, Natalie? You don’t like this song?”
Natalie, “No! No cake! No cake…Nah!”
Mommy (who took a few minutes to realize Natalie’s meaning) said, “Oh! That’s right, Natalie doesn’t like cake!”
Natalie, very pleased that she was understood, replied, “Yeah! No cake…Nah!”
A few minutes later, Natalie smiled and exclaimed, “Mommy, cake!”
Mommy, ruefully replied, “Yes, you’re right. Mommy does like cake.”
Natalie gets a kick out of repeating this conversation each time we listen to “She’ll Be Comin’ Round the Mountain.”
