Emi Imo Dairo Doo?

We went back to the lake this weekend (big surprise, I know), but this time my Hoodlum cousins came up for a visit. It was a Hawaii 2010 reunion... 2 months after the fact. It was a fabulous weekend relaxing, eating, catching up, and playing on the lake.

Saturday evening Deisa & I got off discussing childhood stories our Nena used to tell us. We laughed until we cried discussing "The Weedle on the Needle", "Emi Imo" "Wolly the Lamb" & many many others.

I think "The Weedle on the Needle" took the cake as the best story told in the Hood Household. It was a story about a weedle (still not sure what that is) who lived on the needle (the Seattle Space Needle). Well Nena and Grandad had a radio tower in plain sight of their house, so they would point to the red blinking light & tell us it was the Weedle on the Needle. At night when we wouldn't go to sleep they would say, "You better go to sleep or the weedle will get you!"

Emi Im is a whole 'nother story.... It's a nursery rhyme our entire family says & none of us have a clue 1.where it came from 2. what it means:

Emo imo dairo do rump sum pap-a-linkle rap sap penny winkle... I always mess up the rest, so I'm going to stop while I'm ahead

See... it's crazy. Deisa says her German foreign exchange student friend says it's German. So we googled "emo imo" in every which spelling combo possible. Nothing. We will just chalk this one up as a Hood Family Tradition... like the Eddie's Chocolate of words (more on Eddie's Chocolate later).

Nothing beats reminiscing with family.

&&& I love my husband because he let us spend the whole weekend with just MY family.