慶祝春天 Let's celebrate Spring

I have been waiting for Spring for a while. With the west coast rain, it feels like a looooong wait. The flowers are not waiting, though, and the kids are certainly happy to put on the rain boots and jump in puddles. Hence this poem. I wrote one poem for each season. Again, we turn the production into an art project. Emilyn is more than happy to grab the camera and experiment with it.

Emilyn can read the poem easily on her own. I also installed Audacity this time for the recording so the sound quality is a lot better. Chantal was featured in two of the photographs, one of which was a snapshot I took of her a year ago. She loved her pink boots and insisted on wearing them to match her tutus.

We will try photography for the remaining three seasons - summer at the beach, Halloween in the Fall, and nihao Mr. snowman. Oh, I am including the translation of the poem in this blog because I inserted pinyin (I am learning pinyin myself so this is MY homework), which takes up the screen space for English subtitles. Enjoy!

春－下雨了chūng  -  xià  yǔ  le

Spring – it’s raining

天空黑黑的烏雲  tiān  kūn  hāi  hāi  de  wū  yuēn
In the sky dark clouds
不走開 bù  zǒu  kāi
Won’t go away

下雨了 xià  yǔ  le
It’s raining
唏哩嘩啦  xī  lī  huā  lā
Pitter patter
濕溚溚  shī  dā  dā
So wet

穿雨衣  chuān  yǔ  yī
Put on a raincoat
拿雨傘  ná  yǔ  sǎn
Grab an umbrella
雨靴呢？ yǔ  xuē ne
How about rain boots?
在這裡，在這裡  zài  zhè  lǐ,  zài  zhè  lǐ
They are here, they are here

左腳，右腳，穿好了  zuǒ  jiǎo,  yòu  jiǎo,  chuān  hǎo  le
left foot, right foot, all done
出去找水坑  chū  qù  zhǎo  shuě  kēng
go outside to find puddles
一腳，兩腳，跳進去  yì  jiǎo,  liǎn jiǎo,  tiào  jìn  qù
one foot, two foot, jump in
SPLASH!

我喜歡雨  wǔ  xǐ huān  yǔ
I like rain
春天的花也喜歡雨  chūng  tiān  de  huā  yě  xǐ  huān yǔ
Spring flowers also like rain
黃色的水仙  huáng  sè  de  shuě xiān
yellow daffodils
紅色的鬱金香  hóng  sè  de yù  jīn xiāng
red tulips

摘一朵、兩朵、三朵  zhāi  yī  duǒ,  liǎng  duǒ,  sān  duǒ
Picking one, two, three flowers
把春天帶回家  bǎ  chūng  tiān  dài  hué  jiā
Brining Spring home