School bus

When I put Tani to bed at night, he always requests the song "Wheels on the Bus".   A couple of months ago it morphed into "Wheels on the School Bus".  The song is a narrative (sung to the tune of "The wheels on the bus go 'round and 'round") of how students wait for the bus in the morning, ride to school, the bus goes to wait and then picks the students up after school and takes them home, and then they go play, eat dinner, get ready for bed, go to sleep, wake up and repeat the process the next day.  I often sing several rounds of this until he either falls asleep or asks for a different song.  A couple of weeks ago he requested that the school bus driver wanted a snack, so I sang "The school bus driver has a snack, has a snack, has a snack, the school bus driver has a snack, of Cheerios and milk" (I think I had originally picked pretzels, cheese and crackers but Tani changed the snack).  He likes this verse and if I forget it while I'm singing he is sure to remind me.  This week he requested that I add a line that the school bus driver wears a bib when he eats his snack.  So the line goes "The school bus driver wears a bib, wears a bib, wears a bib, the school bus driver wears a bib when he eats his Cheerios and milk for snack."

Tani has been into a "Real Wheels" video that Grandma Susan bought him which is all about buses.  The video is for children 3-8 because it is mostly talking and not much music or songs.  When Tani was two (as opposed to 2 years and 2.5 months now) he had no patience for videos with a lot of talking.  Now he can follow the story and enjoys them.  So this bus video's narrator is a funny guy named "Bus driver Dave" who tells the viewer all about buses.  Dave shows up at bus driving school ready to learn to drive a bus, but he's late so he has to wash the school bus with a hose and mop.  He squirts himself "accidently" in the face with the hose and makes all kinds of faces at having to wash this big bus.  Tani thinks the whole incident is hilarious.  It's fun to watch him watching the video.