Evelyn has been watching her sister learn the violin, and is really interested. She has taken to playing the "Wii violin", which came from a set of plastic instruments that fit around Wii controllers and meant to be used with the game: Wii Music. The video below was captured during one of her concerts. The lyrics are below:
Velvie died.
And I know she drank toilet water.
And when she died,
she was buried under the ground.
Vevie's in heaven now,
but she's not alive.
We won't see her in three days
or past a year.
I know
there's a couple songs
in this violin .
I know Deinonychus.
I know is available to fight the Deinonychus.
That's Star Wars people!
So, let's go ahead and fight the Deinonychus
so it will be dead.
I know.
I know.
I know there is a tent over there
for us to be safe.
Its stuffed with blankets all over it.
self twice
I knew. . .
Evelyn synthesized just about everything that was happening in her life, at that time, into this song. The first half is about our cat, Velvet (who we called Velvie), who had died while we were on vacation. We had just had a funeral for her, at which the girls placed flowers on her grave and sang some songs. Both of the girls have been very sad, and have been struggling to understand the permanence of death.
Evelyn then moves into a section on Deinonychus. The girls have a book about dinosaurs, which came with a CD. This CD is now played in the car wherever they go; they ask for "dinosaur music" the moment they get into the car. The songs sound like they were written and produced by the same people who make children's religious music. (I swear that one of the songs has the same tune as a song I learned in Sunday School as a child.) One of the songs is about Deinonychus and just how ferocious that dinosaur was with his giant claw. Evelyn sings this song often now.
The "Star Wars people" came from the Star Wars decorations from Lillian's birthday that were still on the walls when Evelyn was singing. (We left them up through May the 4th, Star Wars day.)
Finally, to explain the "tent of blankets": Recently, we had several tornados tear through Dallas. At one point, Erica and the girls had to hide in our powder room (the only room with no windows in our house), while the tornado sirens warned of a tornado in our neighborhood. For weeks after that, the girls would play at creating structures in the living room that would keep them safe from the dreaded "tomatoes/tornados".
