I think it's "pretend." He's just in the church to get out of the cold. I checked a couple of lyrics sites and they all have pretend as well.

Okay, now I have to know....

Maybe I chose it for the irony...and it took forever to type. Maybe my fingers ARE upset with me. ETA: And I'm going with "pretend" I think.

Pretend doesn't fit grammatically.

Pretend doesn't fit grammatically.

Have you ever heard "Live and Let Die"? That song has one of my most hated grammatical errors EVAH.

I always sang began. Pretend works for me though.

Go Rhiannon with the oversized sync swimming. I loved to swim when I was preggers. Never appreciated the weightlessness so much. NotYet!~ma on the labor.

Pretend doesn't fit grammatically.

True, but the next lines

Well, the preacher likes the cold He knows I'm gonna stay

Take some liberties with tenses, too. So I'm not sure that we can hold John to that argument.

When we sang it in high school choir, it was "began."

We just had vision therapy for Aidan. It was fun, as usual, and Kara threw herself on our Jennifer and tried not to let her out the door until I distracted her (Kara, not Jennifer) with a lollipop. She (Jennifer, not Kara) thinks it's even more likely that the doctor was wrong about the diagnosis of autism for Aidan since the negative behaviors he displays, even the bad tantrums and the insistence on scripts, is consistent with a child with a visual impairment and his positive behaviors aren't as consistent with a child with autism.

He was very outgoing with her today, even gave her "big hugs" (which come with grunting to show how tight you're being held, vs. "little hugs" which come with cooing noises to demonstrate comfort). He and Kara were both well-behaved and demonstrated sweet, polite sibling behavior, with kisses for one another and playing together. It was a little surreal.

Also, this morning, Aidan was drawing a circle (his current obsession) and it came out in a funny shape, looking very much like a bird. He stared at it for a second and then shouted, "Duck! Quack!" So, recognizing symbols is coming along nicely. Also, it was just amazingly cute. He drew a duck!

Have you ever heard "Live and Let Die"? That song has one of my most hated grammatical errors EVAH.

Oh, tell! Tell! ::Claps hands enthusiastically::

Ooh, is there tense disagreement? I didn't notice that.

Thanks Laura - fortunately I am not actually doing the synchro! I think that might be a little like the hippo part in Fantasia at the moment....I am just directing the munchkins and such. Luckily my dh runs the music for me during the show, so if anything happens he will be on hand!