For I love You True

I’m logged in under Marcus’ name, but this is Shona writing.

We’ve been trying to get more videos of Emrick singing songs so that we can post them on the blog for Grandma Cinda to enjoy. But Emrick is two, which means that he cannot always be compelled to turn on the cute on command. When my dad commented to me recently that they were waiting for some new videos to be posted, I explained to him that Emrick had not been cooperating with my efforts. My dad then responded, “Really? I never had ANY trouble getting any of YOU kids to cooperate with anything I wanted you to do,” (or words to that effect) and then he proceeded to chuckle for like five hours. 🙂

Emrick loves to sing and perform, but only on his own spontaneous whim, almost never by request. But on Monday, while rocking on his rocking moose in the playroom, Emrick launched into his adorable version of “After Dark.” That’s a song that Marcus used to sing in his high school singing group, and he recently taught it to Emrick. It has a cute little melody (not too recognizable in Pookie’s rendition) with lyrics made cuter by Emrick’s pronunciations. Listen for the word “promenade.”

The beginning of the video shows the END of the song, but Emrick was uncharacteristically obliging when I asked him to sing it again from the top.

The original song, a recording of Marcus’ high school a capella group:

This next video contains no singing. It’s just Emrick eating a granola bar and making himself dizzy, but it’s kind of funny.