Sing Along:
The Pawpaw Patch (Traditional)
Where, oh where, is dear little Nellie?
Where, oh where, is dear little Nellie?
Where, oh where, is dear little Nellie?
Way down yonder in the pawpaw patch.
Come on, boys, let's go find her.
Come on, boys, let's go find her,
Come on, boys, let's go find her,
Way down yonder in the pawpaw patch.
Picking up pawpaws, puttin' 'em in your pocket,
Picking up pawpaws, puttin' 'em in your pocket,
Picking up pawpaws, puttin' 'em in your pocket,
Way down yonder in the pawpaw patch.
Pawpaws are North America's largest and most delicious native fruit. Also called the Hoosier banana, it is deciduous tree with lush tropical looking foliage and unusual blossoms.
It grows on a small tree/shrub as a wild plant. The fruit are small, oblong to pear-shaped with the flavor resembling both apple and banana.
Kenz and I have never tasted pawpaws but we love the lively version (not the slow one) of the song. It's on my Ipod and sometimes we will listen to it three times in a row!
Pumpkin Patch
How do you mend a broken Jack-o-lantern? With a pumpkin patch!
References to pumpkins date back many centuries. The name pumpkin originated from the Greek word for "large melon" which is "pepon." "Pepon" was changed by the French into "pompon." The English changed "pompon" to "Pumpion."
American colonists changed "pumpion" into "pumpkin."
Cabbage Patch Dolls
There's two old 'cabbies' at Nanas and there's one at mommy's. Black Baby Cabbage Patch is about twenty years old (in real years) and his sister Cabbie is about the same. If you press Black Baby's hand, he cries and cries and cries. It sounds real. I think it's a recorded message. Anyway this baby hurt his head, Kenz and I don't remember how, but he loves to wear the band-aid so we leave it on.
I didn't think these dolls were cute, but my daughter was insane when they came out. She loved them. I then acquired the same mental illness and on several occasions waited in long lines at Toys R Us to purchase a new release--- just to see her elation. They were about thirty-five dollars a piece at the time. I know I will never buy another one in my life. We had a whole family of the adoptees, but only two became permanent residents.
In 1976, Xavier Roberts invented 'Little Person' dolls, the first Cabbage Patch Kids. Roberts was a teenager when he started the Babyland General Hospital in Cleveland, Georgia, where people could adopt a baby (the hand sewn dolls were never called dolls) complete with adoption papers. Roberts and five friends started the Original Appalachian Artworks company to produce the dolls. The Coleco toy company liked Roberts' ideas and began mass-marketing the dolls in 1983, under the new name of 'Cabbage Patch Kids.'
Cabbage Patch Kids Official Website Cabbage Patch Kids
Cabbage Patch Kids Official Website Cabbage Patch Kids
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