February 19, 2005
What Dr. King Had in Mind
...Black Barbie and Dora the Explora sitting down together at the table of sisterhood...Winnie the Pooh and Care Bear joining hands with the Cat in the Hat and Tigger...all the children's toys--gophers and wolves, big bears and small bears, Disney characters and PBS Television characters singing in the words of the old Romper Room classic:
The more we get together
Together
Together
The more we get together
The happier we'll be
(This entry was originally posted January 7, 2005. See this entry for my original follow-up post.)
OK, so now I'm recycling entries. But I owed a post from the other day. Plus, I had to have an excuse to tell a few "cute kid" stories about my daughters and King.
1) One of my girls was talking on the phone to one of her grandmothers. She mentioned that we were right in the middle of reading a book about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Her grandmother asked if she knew who that was. She said, "Yes, he was our president." Thinking this cute, her grandmother laughed and repeated "Oh, he was the president." To which my daughter in all seriousness corrected, "No, he was our president!"
2) Still under the impression that King was a former president of our country (at least for some of us), both girls were in a heated discussion the other day about which denomination of US money he was on. (Note that there is a real life effort to get Dr. King on some money. See: http://www.putkingonthe20.com/.)
3) We have a ritual that goes along with our nightly family meals: holding hands around the table and saying "Bon appetit" along with saying any other special greeting relevant to the day--e.g., "Happy Valentine's Day" "Happy Birthday, Daddy." Last night one of the girls noted that Dr. King's birthday had passed but we had failed to say happy birthday to him at dinner that evening. So last night, after wishing each other a good meal, we wished Dr. King a very happy belated birthday.
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