Matthew and I kicked off the week yesterday morning with our first Christmas Carol. We started with good old traditional Jingle Bells, one that we know and love and belt out at the top of our lungs in the early morning light. Well I did, Matthew told me that he only knew the chorus, as when I was doing “dashing through the snow…” he wasn’t singing and when I asked him why this is what he told me. I was surprised actually. So deciding that I would have to teach him the beginning, I kept singing and he joined in with me on the chorus.

We both went off to have wonderful days, happy and smiling. (I also believe we had great days due to the planetary alignment of Saturn, Venus and Mercury with Earth and aligning perfectly with the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt – very good energetically)

This morning we had a bit of a rough start to our singing as I suggested we sing Frosty the Snowman, and Matthew informed me that that was the Christmas song he despised the most. (again surprised by this) I asked him if he had another suggestion but he couldn’t come up with one that he knew the words to. So we sang Frosty, and though he joined in a little bit, I sang most of it by myself. I also realized that I didn’t know all the words or the right order for Frosty the Snowman! Which I thought was terrible so came right home to ‘study’ them so I could get it right.

Before Matthew boarded the bus we did decide on our carol for tomorrow which is I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas, which we have to relearn the words for. Because though we did it last year and I know more of the words than I did before, I still don’t know them all.

Hopefully tomorrow will go well as that song is so much fun! and Matthew will willingly sing along with me. I think if we could get the twins involved somehow it would be even more fun and Matthew might be more willing to participate; cause yes this year I am having trouble getting Matthew to sing with me. He also informed me this morning that he does not like singing in public – which I sort of knew, but I told him only the houses, the snow and the wind would hear us, so it wasn’t really public. He’s 9 though so it’s his age and I think he just needs the right motivator, like a fun song!

So stay posted… and don’t forget to join us in our challenge and post the songs you sing in the comments section. Below are the words for the songs we have sung so far!

Jingle Bells

Dashing through the snow

In a one horse open sleigh

O’er the fields we go

Laughing all the way

Bells on bob tails ring

Making spirits bright

What fun it is to laugh and sing

A sleighing song tonight

Oh, jingle bells, jingle bells

Jingle all the way

Oh, what fun it is to ride

In a one horse open sleigh

Jingle bells, jingle bells

Jingle all the way

Oh, what fun it is to ride

In a one horse open sleigh

A day or two ago

I thought I’d take a ride

And soon Miss Fanny Bright

Was seated by my side

The horse was lean and lank

Misfortune seemed his lot

We got into a drifted bank

And then we got upsot

Oh, jingle bells, jingle bells

Jingle all the way

Oh, what fun it is to ride

In a one horse open sleigh

Jingle bells, jingle bells

Jingle all the way

Oh, what fun it is to ride

In a one horse open sleigh yeah

Jingle bells, jingle bells

Jingle all the way

Oh, what fun it is to ride

In a one horse open sleigh

Jingle bells, jingle bells

Jingle all the way

Oh, what fun it is to ride
In a one horse open sleigh

Frosty the Snowman

Frosty the Snowman

Was a jolly happy soul

With a corncob pipe and a button nose

And two eyes made out of coal

Frosty the Snowman

Is a fairytale they say

He was made of snow

But the children know

How he came to life one day

There must have been some magic

In that old silk hat they found

For when they placed it on his head

He began to dance around

Frosty the Snowman

Was alive as he could be

And the children say

He could laugh and play

Just the same as you and me

Frosty the Snowman

Knew the sun was hot that day

So he said let’s run

And we’ll have some fun

Now before I melt away

Down to the village

With a broomstick in his hand

Running here and there all around the square

Saying catch me if you can

He led them down the streets of town

Right to the traffic cop

And he only paused a moment when

He heard him holler stop

Frosty the Snowman

Had to hurry on his way

But he waved goodbye

Saying don’t you cry

I’ll be back again some day

Thumpety thump thump

Thumpety thump thump

Look at Frosty go

Thumpety thump thump
Thumpety thump thump

Over the hills of snow

I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas

I want a hippopotamus for Christmas

Only a hippopotamus will do,

Don’t want a doll, no dinky Tinker Toy

I want a hippopotamus to play with and enjoy

I want a hippopotamus for Christmas

I don’t think Santa Claus will mind, do you?

He won’t have to use our dirty chimney flue

Just bring him through the front door,

that’s the easy thing to do

I can see me now on Christmas morning,

creeping down the stairs

Oh what joy and what surprise

when I open up my eyes

to see a hippo hero standing there

I want a hippopotamus for Christmas

Only a hippopotamus will do

No crocodiles, no rhinoceroses

I only like hippopotamuses

And hippopotamuses like me too

Mom says the hippo would eat me up, but then

Teacher says hippo is a vegetarian

There’s lots of room for him in our two-car garage

I’d feed him there and wash him there and give him his massage

I can see me now on Christmas morning,

creeping down the stairs

Oh what joy and what surprise

when I open up my eyes

to see a hippo hero standing there

I want a hippopotamus for Christmas

Only a hippoptatmus will do

No crocodiles or rhinoceroseses

I only like hippopotamuses

And hippopotamuses like me too!