Meredith and Lucas Super Quiz

As Lucas gets older, it become clearer and clearer that he and Meredith have very different personalities. Test your knowledge with this quiz...answers will be posted soon.

1. Which kid is more likely to go down a playground slide?
2. Who gets crazier bedhead?
3. Which kid could eat hummus for every meal?
4. Whose favorite toy is currently a stuffed Pluto from Disney World?
5. Who likes to hear Ave Maria sung for a lullabye?
6. Who is very interested in street signs?
7. Which child is obsessed with drinks?
8. Which of the kids sleeps better at night?
9. Which kid has the most bone-chilling screech?
10. Which kid is currently enthralled with the snap-crackle-pop of Rice Krispies?
11. Who did I recently find standing on top of our electric piano, holding onto the adjacent bookshelf?
12. Who likes to ride a big-kid bike with training wheels?
13. Who loves baths?
14. Who has strong preferences about clothing?
15. Do we have a daddy's-boy and a mama's-girl, or a daddy's-girl and a mama's-boy?

Put your answers in your comment and you'll be able to see how you did when I post the correct answers in a few days! Have fun!

"So Bring Me Tonight"

Here's Meredith showing her mad piano skills with another original song. I think there is a 4-note lick stolen from "Show Me the Way" by Styx (their line that begins "take me tonight" sounds similar to the "bring me tonight" that begins every line of her song). That just shows her good taste in music, right?

Lyrics are posted below...my favorite is when the "doggies and blankets" get introduced partway through. Except for that element, it has the makings of an 80's power ballad with some edgy content, such as the line "you can guess what I'm doin' in the night" (but we don't have to guess because it's abundantly clear from the rest of the song that the answer is "sleeping", and that you should know why).

Musically, my favorite thing is that she refuses to transition to falsetto, just belting it out louder when she wants to get higher!

If you don' t have 4 minutes for this, start at around the 1 minute 40 second mark to come in right after the instrumental bridge.



Lyrics to "So Bring Me Tonight"

(beginning involves some mumbling; I'll indicate other missing parts below with ...)

...
So bring me tonight
...

So bring me tonight
and you know why I'm sleepin' in the night

So bring me tonight
and you know why I'm sleepin' in the night
...
You can do it
I know that you can do it

So bring me tonight
and you know why I'm sleepin' in the night

(instrumental bridge!)

So bring me tonight
and you know why I'm sleepin' in the night
because you got
...
because you got bunny right (?) sleepin' in the night
(note: she has a giant stuffed bunny that sleeps by her bed, so this is my best guess)

So bring me tonight
to bed and I will fall asleep
with my puppies and my blankets
all day LONGGGGGG!
(note: as might be obvious, her sleeping companions are stuffed dogs and blankets)

So bring me tonight
so you can snuggle with your doggies and your blankets
all day LONGGGGGG!

So bring me tonight
to the river (I think? that's the Styx lyric)
and you can guess why I'm sleepin' in the night

So bring me tonight
you know why I'm sleepin' in the night
so you can sleep with your doggies and your blankets
and you know why I'm sleepin' in the NIIIIIIIIGHT!

So bring me tonight
...
you know why I'm sleepin' in the night
with your doggies and your blankets all day LONGGGGG!

So bring me tonight
and you know why I'm sleepin' in the NIIIIIGHT!

So bring me tonight
...
you can guess why I'm sleepin' in the NIIIIIIGHT!

So bring me tonight
(to the river?)
and you can guess what I'm doin' in the night

So bring me tonight
(to the river?)
and you can guess what I'm doin' in the night