Thursday, January 17, 2013

"Amelia, Amelia"

When we were kids our cousins Michelle and Lauren came to visit, and taught us this little....skit I guess.  One person lies down on their back and the other sits on top of them, sort of on their waist, and folds their own legs underneath and behind them.  Then they put a blanket over their own lap and legs, so it looks like the bottom person's legs are their own.  Then there's a whole thing you recite, and choreography involving your arms and the person on bottom's legs.  I know, weird, but we thought it was hilarious.  Especially when the person on bottom had either really long legs or really short legs for the person on top.  It starts out with "One day, when daddy was reading the newspaper, and mommy was sewing, I decided to watch tv.  All of a sudden, there was a knock, a knock, a KNOCK at the door..."

On New Years we were hanging out at my Grandad's house and making fun of Cassie for doing it in the school talent show with her friend when they were in elementary school.  Our aunts wanted to see it in action so Cassie and I did it.  It had been like 20 years and we still remembered the whole thing!  I was so proud.

Over the next few days several people did their own versions and texted it to each other.  Well one day Neely started doing it on her own in the car and I was so impressed by how much of it she remembered.  She says the "Amelia,Amelia, come open up the door" so cute.  It ends with "and he looked like..." and the person on top bows down while the person on bottom pops up and says "ME!"  This probably makes very little sense, but the main point here is that Neely knows some of it and it's cute.  That's all you need.  Ha.  She doesn't really get going until about the 20 second point.  The video's awful, it's mostly about the audio.

3 comments:

Nicole Linn said...

I'm so bummed we left on New Years' before you and Cassie performed!!

UsIves said...

Haha :). Glad "Amelia" hasn't been forgotten!

Brandi said...

Yeah, you really missed out Nicole! Ha. I do wish you'd still been there, just because by then I'd finished sewing my little doe and could have actually visited. I think Jess enjoyed getting to talk with Cullen though.

I thought you would enjoy this, Michelle!