Monday, January 7, 2008

Somewhere Over the Rainbow

When James was born, I would sing lots of little kid songs to him; songs like "Jesus Loves Me", "Jesus Loves the Little Children", "I'm in the Lord's Army" and so on...
My mom's favorite movie is Wizard of Oz... and we all can at least hum the tune of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow". I looked up the lyrics on the internet, and learned most of them, and decided that would be another song to sing to him...
When Jim and I were in Maui in October, he was standing on the lanai (porch) and a bird came out of no where... the bird acted kind of eratic, and stopped right in front of Jim (we were on the 9th floor, too). Anyway, the bird then took off really fast and flew opposite of the ocean view. Jim turned to see where the bird went, and saw this beautiful view








Well, being we were in Hawaii, I remembered one of my many favs... and, it is sung by a native Hawaiian, Israel Kamakawiwo'ole. Many of you may remember this version from a great movie: 50 First Dates.

So, please click on this video clip and think to yourself, What A Wonderful World...

ps I have not forgotten about pics of all our nieces and nephews with James ... project is still in the works!