Bubble Gum, Bubble Gum, In a Dish

Our girls have learned some new rhymes lately from some of the "big kids" in our small group. One is eenie meenie miny moe, which I was glad to hear "catch a TIGER by his toe." Sadly, that's not how I learned it. How embarrassing. Another new rhyme, which they are obsessed with, is "Bubble gum, bubble gum in a dish. How many pieces do you wish?"

Little Sissy has simultaneously gotten confused and gotten obsessed with this rhyme. Probably a dozen times a day she asks me, "How many people do you wish?" I've gotten very boring. I always say 5, since that's how many people are in our family. It's really fun to ask when we're somewhere else, though, so we can name all the people present. She asks other people this too, which is especially confusing because of the way she talks combined with the fact that the question doesn't make sense even with perfect articulation.

Last night, after promising myself I was going to bed at a decent time, I was still up at 1 a.m. I was downstairs on the computer (of course), when I heard little footsteps running upstairs. I ran up to see what was wrong. Little Sissy, squinting because she was still half asleep, rubbed her eyes and said, "I jus' need to ask you sumpin'."

"What is it, honey?"
"Um...um...um...how many people do you 'ish?"

So I have a computer obsession, and she has a "bubble gum in a dish" obsession. I guess it's genetic.