Yankee Doodle

For a little while, anytime Luke and Andrew would get mad at each other, they would start to angrily sing Yankee Doodle, inserting the other person's name into the song. "YANKEE DOODLE WENT TO TOWN RIDING ON A ANOO!!" Then , Andrew would start singing it right back at him, trying to sing louder, and more angry, "YANKEE DOODLE WENT TO TOWN RIDING ON A LUKEY!!!" They would start screaming "NOOO" and then scream the song even louder. Usually this would turn into a chase around the house and then a wrestling match.

This was such a strange event that occurred for a couple of weeks in our house, and I just couldn't help but laugh about it. I'm even chuckling right now as I think about it. It was just SO ridiculous!! I have no idea how this even started, and how being inserted into Yankee Doodle was the worst insult that could ever happen.

A few weeks later, Andrew began to kind of innocently sing it to himself, without any bad intentions. Luke said,

No Andrew, don't sing that!!

we said, yes he can. . . he can sing whatever he wants.

Luke replied, well if he sings it, its gonna be stuck in my head all day, and I hate that song!!!

We thought it was so funny that a four year old understands the feeling of a song being stuck in his head all day. . . and especially when it is an annoying song to begin with.

This finally answered some questions as to how his vehemence for the song began!