Dap! Dap! Dap!

One of the highlights of our recent trip to Utah was a visit to a local duck pond. Apparently this is a favorite past time of my little nephews who live right nearby. Noah REALLY enjoyed his first attempt at duck feeding and, as you can see from the videos, he has quite the arm and aim for it! For all the Smith's reading this... NO, Kevin did NOT fall into the duck pond this time. Bad memory of his from when he was little. I'm sure he'll thank me for bringing it up!

Now to explain the title of this post: Noah calls all ducks "Dap Dap." Even his rubber ducky. We're pretty sure he's saying "quack quack." He demonstrates this for you in the videos. Oh! And little Miss Riss does HER impression of what the duckies say as well! So darling... Anywhoo. One of Noah's favorite songs to sing right now is about the five little ducks. You know, where they all go out to play and then stop coming back one at a time? Well, at the end (for those of you not familiar!) when no little ducks come back as their momma duck calls, the DADDY duck quacks quite fervently and then all five little ducks come waddling back... or so they sing! So when we sing this part of the song, Noah does his almost violent impression of the daddy duck. Please see the second video below. Note: Don't you just LOVE little children's songs that inadvertently teach them to fear one parent over the other??? I'm just sayin'..... :)

Gram, Aunt Jamz, and Noah.... It was REALLY windy and a bit chilly!


Grandpa with the secret duck-feeding ingredient

More cold duck-feeders: Sammie, Ben, and Beautiful Aunt Maren

Um... These are the ducks.

Our little Sammie was so cold... He ended up with Gram's jacket!

I LOVE this picture. :) Aunt Rinny and Marissa were the coldest, straight from Florida. Rissa's little bottom lip wouldn't stop shivering, but she had fun!


Noah didn't want this lone duck to be left out:




"But when the DADDY duck said...."




Dap Dap Dap,

Nicole
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