Accentuate the Positive

Just for fun - a little Bing Crosby...

AC-CENT-TCHU-ATE THE POSITIVE
(Mister In-Between)
(Johnny Mercer / Harold Arlen)

You've got to accentuate the positive
Eliminate the negative
Latch on to the affirmative
Don't mess with Mister In-Between

You've got to spread joy up to the maximum
Bring gloom down to the minimum
Have faith or pandemonium
Liable to walk upon the scene

(To illustrate his last remark
Jonah in the whale, Noah in the ark
What did they do
Just when everything looked so dark)

Man, they said we better
Accentuate the positive
Eliminate the negative
Latch on to the affirmative
Don't mess with Mister In-Between
No, do not mess with Mister In-Between
Do you hear me, hmm?

(Oh, listen to me children and-a you will hear
About the eliminatin' of the negative
And the accent on the positive)
And gather 'round me children if you're willin'
And sit tight while I start reviewin'
The attitude of doin' right

(You've gotta accentuate the positive
Eliminate the negative
Latch on to the affirmative
Don't mess with Mister In-Between)

You've got to spread joy (up to the maximum)
Bring gloom (down) down to the minimum
Otherwise (otherwise) pandemonium
Liable to walk upon the scene

To illustrate (well illustrate)
my last remark (you got the floor)
Jonah in the whale, Noah in the ark
What did they say (what did they say)
Say when everything looked so dark

Man, they said we better
Accentuate the positive
Eliminate the negative
Latch on to the affirmative
Don't mess with Mister In-Between
No! Don't mess with Mister In-Between

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This has been a strange week. We are trying to "accentuate the positive" with Miss Latte who has been showing all the expected behaviors since she realized that she is going to be staying permanently at her mom's house soon... just not soon enough for her. We've been trying to be more understanding when she has mood swings because this is a lot to adjust to for a four year old. We've also been trying to have more one-on-one snuggle time with her so that she knows that we aren't just abandoning her.

On top of that we also got a call for a new little boy on Tuesday evening. We happened to be at Wal-mart buying a basketball hoop for the kids when they called my cell. We talked it over and agreed to take him very short term until they could find someone else. He's only 14 months old. So all we needed was to grab a few items like diapers and then we picked him up on the way home. It turns out that he's wonderful, the perfect baby. I was worried that he and Kevin would keep waking each other up all night long and that he would need so much attention that I wouldn't be able to get our homeschooling done.

I guess I should have listened to Bing Crosby because this little boy is a dream. He barely cries and even then it's more of a fuss than a cry. He sleeps all night long. He goes to sleep within 10 minutes of being put down at nap and bedtimes. He's snuggly one minute and completely independent the next. He's won the hearts of everyone in the house with his mischievous smiles and insatiable curiosity. I'm going to call him Snoopy because he doesn't say actual words but he speaks volumes with his actions. We love this kid to bits!