{"id":190,"date":"2008-01-28T10:36:35","date_gmt":"2008-01-28T18:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baby.chriswong.org\/?p=190"},"modified":"2008-01-28T10:38:11","modified_gmt":"2008-01-28T18:38:11","slug":"pop-goes-the-weasel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baby.chriswong.org\/?p=190","title":{"rendered":"Pop Goes the Weasel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was another rainy day here in LA.&#160; So what does any normal family do on a rainy day?&#160; Stay indoors and relax?<\/p>\n<p>Nope.&#160; Not this normal family.&#160; Knowing we&#8217;d get a yelling by our parents in the future, we chose to go to Disneyland!&#160; We bought a rain cover for the stroller for Caleb.&#160; We got our new umbrella.&#160; We had Caleb bundled up.&#160; So we went prepared.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/baby.chriswong.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/img-5289.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"184\" alt=\"IMG_5289\" src=\"http:\/\/baby.chriswong.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/img-5289-thumb.jpg\" width=\"139\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/baby.chriswong.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/img-5291.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"184\" alt=\"IMG_5291\" src=\"http:\/\/baby.chriswong.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/img-5291-thumb.jpg\" width=\"244\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/baby.chriswong.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/img-5298.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"184\" alt=\"IMG_5298\" src=\"http:\/\/baby.chriswong.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/img-5298-thumb.jpg\" width=\"244\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>We enrolled Caleb in this music class that we go to every Saturday.&#160; So they gave us a CD that we can listen to; songs that they use in the class.&#160; One of the songs is &quot;Pop Goes the Weasel.&quot;&#160; Now most of you, I would imagine, probably don&#8217;t remember the lyrics to this song.&#160; In fact, you probably only know the &quot;Pop goes the weasel&quot; part like me and Yvonne.<\/p>\n<p>So we started listening closely to the lyrics and honestly, they didn&#8217;t make any sense to us.&#160; First we couldn&#8217;t really understand what they were saying since the lyrics didn&#8217;t quite make sense to us.&#160; So we looked up the song on wikipedia (I know wikipedia is frowned upon in the academic community, but they have almost always provided thorough and accurate information).&#160; Here are the lyrics on our CD:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>All around the cobbler&#8217;s bench     <br \/>The monkey chased the weasel;      <br \/>The monkey thought &#8217;twas all in fun,       <br \/>Pop! goes the weasel.<\/p>\n<p>A penny for a spool of thread,     <br \/>A penny for a needle&#8212;      <br \/>That&#8217;s the way the money goes,      <br \/>Pop! goes the weasel.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font style=\"background-color: #fafaf0\">Now after reading this&#8230;&#160; we still don&#8217;t know what it means.&#160; We know that fairy tales had all these meanings used for teaching.&#160; Real fairy tales were used to teach the children about certain things.&#160; So was there some hidden meaning we were suppose to get out of this children&#8217;s song?&#160; Go to <a title=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pop_Goes_the_Weasel\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pop_Goes_the_Weasel\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pop_Goes_the_Weasel<\/a> to check out the meaning.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font style=\"background-color: #fafaf0\">I got six new videos at <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/linwong\">http:\/\/youtube.com\/linwong<\/a>.&#160; You can subscribe to my channel to get all the updates to the videos.&#160; Here&#8217;s one of him jumping.<\/font><\/p>\n<div class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" id=\"scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:dc9f0e5d-f384-4a24-88c7-10e1a41fc61b\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">\n<div id=\"e87b229c-a442-4fe7-962f-1ac7bc45d479\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline;\">\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=xAntQ6gyMz4\" target=\"_new\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/baby.chriswong.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/videofd3eb929eafa.jpg\" galleryimg=\"no\" onload=\"var downlevelDiv = document.getElementById('e87b229c-a442-4fe7-962f-1ac7bc45d479'); downlevelDiv.innerHTML = &quot;&lt;div&gt;&lt;object width=\\&quot;425\\&quot; height=\\&quot;350\\&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=\\&quot;movie\\&quot; value=\\&quot;http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/xAntQ6gyMz4\\&quot;&gt;&lt;\\\/param&gt;&lt;param name=\\&quot;wmode\\&quot; value=\\&quot;transparent\\&quot;&gt;&lt;\\\/param&gt;&lt;embed src=\\&quot;http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/xAntQ6gyMz4\\&quot; type=\\&quot;application\/x-shockwave-flash\\&quot; wmode=\\&quot;transparent\\&quot; width=\\&quot;425\\&quot; height=\\&quot;350\\&quot;&gt;&lt;\\\/embed&gt;&lt;\\\/object&gt;&lt;\\\/div&gt;&quot;;\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>We shall be getting our new camera soon.&#160; Should be much better pictures and much better video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was another rainy day here in LA.&#160; So what does any normal family do on a rainy day?&#160; Stay indoors and relax? 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