Makayla had a birthday party for one of her classmates - Alex, this past weekend. Joe happened to be there when they were getting ready for the cake.
Antonia (one of Mak's classmate): "we can sing happy birthday in English, Polish, Chinese, French...."
Joe: "Really? Chinese???? How?"
Then the kids in unison, as if they practiced - started to sing Happy Birthday in Chinese. . . .
or so they thought.
To Joe's great amazement and amusement, they were not at all singing in Chinese.
This is what they were singing:
"Chin chin nay nay quai nai~ Chin chin nay nay quai nai ~"
Joe just started to crack up and Alex's dad was like "are they singing in Chinese?" and Joe answered, "I don't know what language they are signing in." but Joe knew that this was the song Makayla made up in her jibberish period.
It was just amazing to see 12 kids sing this jibberish song in unison. It's too embarrassing at this point to tell the children that what they are singing is in fact not only NOT chinese but NOT a language at all!
Since I missed the whole thing, I asked Makayla when she came back from the party.
Me: "I heard that you guys sang in Chinese - how did all the kids know to sing it?"
Mak: (confidently) "Because Antonia and I taught them!"
Me: (not having the heart to tell her that it's not Chinese) "Rrrrrriiiiigggghhhhtttt. Okay...okay..."
Oh, the kicker was that Ethan chimed in with already memorized and well-practiced "chin-chin-nay-nay-quai-nai". oh brother.
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5 comments:
You daughter has leadership! Great! :)
How cute!!
Oh my goodness, I remembered that you have this blog and just read this post. HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!! That is a truly hilarious story--one for the ages!!!! I agree with Sueen--what amazing leadership on Mak's part! It kinda reminds me of a scene from "Life is Beautiful" where the Italian Jew teaches all the German boys to say something in Hebrew. Makes me glimpse anew the wonder of childhood. =)
Oh gosh, I think I spat some spit while I laughed... you know, that fake Chinese is exactly the type of phrase kids get into trouble in America - it's called "racial discrimination!!" However, coming from Mak, who's half Chinese, I guess it's okay (LOL!!) I surprise myself for missing this many blog entries...
Puahahahaha....that is hilarious!!!!! I'm gonna have to visit you during my birthday so that they can sing it to me!
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