Check it out. I can't stop admiring this picture.
Annelise loves to sing. It is very cute. She makes up words and goes on and on...something akin to the way Frances sings in Russell Hoban's beloved children's series.
Her most recent composition goes like this:
"The sun is coming up,
The sun is coming up,
The sun is coming up,"
(then in a high baby voice)
"The sun is coming down
The sun is coming down
The sun is coming down
But, I don't care.
I don't know why, because."
She was trying to teach it to me today in the car.
Each time I tried my best to sing it, I would inevitably be interrupted by my teacher:
"That doesn't how it goes!"
Annelise uses this phrase whenever applicable. When she was learning her ABC's, I heard her rehearsing (while sitting on the potty, no less)
"ABCDEFG
HIKA....
Urghhh! That doesn't how it goes!!"
repeat.
Whenever I hear her say "That doesn't how it goes" I giggle to myself. Along with all the other cute little things that come out of her little 3-year-old brain.
It was only a few days ago that I realized something...
She is right.
When you ask someone how it goes, you say, "How does that song go?"
You don't say, "How is that song go?"
Why do we say, "How does it go?" in the question form and in answer we say, "That isn't how it goes."
She's right.
