Badger-mania continues

Katie has become an even bigger fan of Badger Badger Badger. She's now hip to all three versions we've been able to find:

• The version she calls "the original"
• The football (soccer) version
  
• And our family's fave-rave, the bananaphone version

If you stick your arms out parallel to the ground and do a few knee bends, you'll get Katie to crack up, do the dance with you, or usually both. She's also struggling to sing along with the bananaphone song, but it's pretty speedy and has a few long words ("interactive-odular" being my personal favorite).

Colin's a fan too, but more of the closet kind. He won't usually rush to the computer and demand to see them, but we have overhead him singing the bananaphone song to himself.

I didn't know bananaphone was a Raffi song until I found the Wikipedia entry yesterday. But now that I know, it makes perfect sense. (Since we were introduced to the speedy version first, the Raffi original seems oh-so-slow.)

Lest you think the only badger fans are preschool-age children, I've actually used the badgers to kick off brainstomring meetings at work. It helps people get into the right frame of mind.

And lest you think we've gone off the deep end, I invite you to click here to confirm that we are, by comparison, only the mildest of fans. Badgerbadgerbadger...mushroom, mushroom...snake, it's a snake!