Who doesn't love bread?

This fall Luke and I have been attending a weekly mom & baby program at the community center in our neighborhood. We sing songs/ rhymes, read stories, talk about mom things and let the babies coo at each other. This is SO not the type of thing I ever imagined myself doing, but it has been great.

Luke’s favorite diddy is called “slice, slice” and luckily it’s one of the ones I always remember so it gets a lot of play in our house (hmmm…I guess that’s why it’s his favorite). Luke can be cranking away, and “slice, slice” pretty reliably turns it around.

Incase you ever need to calm someone down –I suspect it would work on a person of any age; why not?—here are the lyrics (with hand movements):

Slice, slice bread looks nice (make slicing motion across belly with the side of your hand)...

Spread, spread butter on the bread (pretend to spread something on person’s belly)...

Some jam on top to make it sweet (use fingers to softly pinch person anywhere you like)...

And now you’re good enough to eat! (commence tickling, fake biting or whatever floats their boat)

Even Keith knows “slice, slice” and, in fact, I used it on him just the other day. I went to make his lunch and all we had in the house was PB&J and a bulkie roll. He thought it was absolutely ridiculous, no way, he’d rather starve than have PB&J (which he loves) on a roll; it simply MUST be on sliced bread. I’ve heard this before… I once tried to serve him a hamburger on a bagel and we argued about why that was fine (me) vs. so wrong (him) for quite a while. This was before I would eat a hamburger; now I understand why/how it just doesn’t work.

Anyway, I decided to make the sandwich because I know he doesn’t have time to get lunch and he just might settle for the PB&J on bulkie in a pinch. So, in an attempt to make it more appealing, I started making it while saying “slice, slice, roll looks nice…” Keith started laughing. But apparently he still didn’t eat the sandwich. It’s probably rotting in his work fridge.

Since I know you’re curious, here’s a video of “slice, slice” putting Luke at ease (it's not staged; he really was cranky so I pulled out the camera and my hand knife. Your recognize opportunities like this when you're writing a blog:-)