Song requests and Cruisin'

There have been some tough days with Ewan lately. He is 2, I know. Can't help but laugh at how much easier it was to deal with as a teacher and a nanny though! I didn't feel extremely hurt when they would hit me, so it is very different and more difficult. We continue to stay strong and stern and hope he figures out asap that hitting and yelling does not get him a damn thing! In the meantime, I am trying to channel all the patience and knowledge I use at work for my own life!

I have mentioned before that Ewan loves music. He has started to make requests for songs in the car. He started off mostly requesting Beatles then it moved to various top 40 dance pop and hip hop songs and now he has widened his tastes for sure. The only problem is that the titles he gives the songs are so odd, it is often a total guessing game what he is talking about. Here are some recent examples starting with ones that were easier to figure out and getting increasingly more difficult:
"Yay" = Yeah by Usher
"More shufflin'"= Party Rock by LMFAO
"Lady with the skirt"= Short Skirt, Long Jacket by Cake
"Taking off the shirts"= Sexy and I Know It by LMFAO (Yes, he has seen the video)
"Boots" = Intergalactic by the Beastie Boys (again referring to the video)
"The song with Ewan and Zak and Kai dancing"= That's Not My Name by the Ting-tings (referring to a video we have of him dancing with his cousins to this in England)
"Screws Man"= Dynamite by Taio Cruz (he was very frustrated when he asked "where the screws man?" and I kept telling him that Tim, the maintenance guy at work, was at home.)
"The letters...the one that Liam likes"= ABC by the Jackson 5 (his friend Liam loves him some MJ)
"Working"= Give Me Everything by Pitbull
"Work"= Anyone Who had a Heart by Dionne Warwick
"Fire...fire on the face"= Pumped Up Kicks by Foster the People (Later realized he was talking about the CD cover! you can see it here if you scroll down)
"Soapy" = The Day We Caught the Train by Ocean Colour Scene (??????)

As you may know, Ewan got a rockin' bike from Nana for his birthday. It took him a while to reach the pedals, but now he is a pedaling machine.  We are happy to have discovered a good use for our inherited RV parking spot besides just housing trash cans. We are also fortunate to have a park across the street- he loves to bike in the basketball court. Look at this boy go!

This one is from a few weeks ago...



Here he is last weekend...so much faster already!



Bonus videos! Not the most exciting videos around, unless you adore this boy as much as we do.
As you are probably well aware, we love to watch Ewan read books to himself. Here is "A Pocket for Corduroy" in 2 parts (since the first one was interrupted by him looking for his own pocket, his sneeze, and then wanting to see the video).
Here is the script as told by Ewan (I left out the things he was referring to not in the book):
"Here, right here
Corduroy don't... (inaudible) soapy
I don't have a pocket.
Corduroy...
Laundry mat is closing.
We're going home. We're going home.
Laundry mat is closing. Laundry mat is closing. Laundry mat is closing.
Everybody out!
Laundry mat is closing.
Everybody out!
Can I look around? Yes.
I don't have a pocket.
I have a pocket."