Broccoli Llama

I can't get enough of Bud's new hand song (you know, nonsense rhymes with hand movements) about llamas.  This one starts with "happy llama, sad llama" and a hand sign like "hook'em horns" but the "ears" go down on "sad."  And it keeps going . . . . He's only done it for me once, being to shy afterwards when I wanted to see it again.  Luckily, I got it on video the first time (but have promised to never show anyone ever.  Right.)!  It just makes me smile.  Teasing him about it, by doing the llama sign, makes me smile too, especially as he objects, "You are SO annoying!" he squeals, loving the attention (because if there is anything that boy loves, it's an audience.)  Sis doesn't know the rhyme as well and doesn't get as worked up when I mention it; and she just smiles when he gets embarrassed.  It's hilarious.

Even more funny, there is a line in the rhyme that I thought mentioned "broccoli llama," which doesn't make any kind of sense.  Well, little of it makes sense.  But Urban Dictionary clears up that confusion:  it's Barack "Ollama!"  Must be a new one (the llama subject reminds me of those recent kids' books by Anna Dewdney like Llama, Llama Red Pajama, and Llama, Llama Mad at Mama, etc.).  Bud's version is different than the one in Urban Dictionary because it omits the Dalai "Llama" (meditation fingers!) part and ends with a whole "moose-alpaca-moose-moose-alpaca-goat" section.  

Perhaps you have to see it to appreciate it.

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Llama Song, Bud's version


(make a llama head with your pointer finger and pinkie, like "Hook'em Horns")

happy llama (regular llama, see above)

sad llama (droop "ear" fingers)

totally rad llama (make a llama and wave it like a lasso by your head)

super llama (hand signs are unclear here)

drama llama 

big fat mama llama (put hands beside each other and put up the outer finger on each hand)

baby llama (llama kissing your cheeks)

crazy llama (circular motions with both llamas each side of your head)

don't forget barack ollama (unclear hand signs here)

fish, fish (put both hands out in front, palms down)

more (roll hands over eachother)

fish (hand out in front again)

turtle (make turtle, one hand on top of the other)

UH (bring turtle towards your chest)

unicorn (bring both hands up to your forehead)

peacock (fan arms out to either side, kinda like a peacock tail)


moose (spread-finger hands beside head)


alpaca (hang-ten hands beside head)


moose, moose, alpaca (repeat above_


goat (use two hands to make beard at chin)


moose, alpaca, moose, moose, alpaca, goat! (repeat signs)