Here's how you do it...

This morning I had only Colin and Alex. They're 9 and 6, respectively.

It's normal to have only two kids, mornings are fun and laid back. I deserve that, really, considering what my afternoons have been like lately.

::sigh::

They were playing with the Bionicles after they'd both eaten a bowl of cereal. Both were absorbed in building, Colin silently focused and Alex whistling quietly. It went on a few minutes. Colin suddenly noticed that Alex was whistling. 


"Hey, how do you do that?" he asked.
"Do what?"
"Whistle. I want to whistle."

Alex considered for a moment. Then he said, "Well, basically you put your lips in a kissing position," and he demonstrated. "Then, you just... blow!"

He whistled sharply.

Cracked me up.

Colin tried and tried, pursing his lips and looking down his nose at them and occasionally getting a noise but mostly just air. It really was funny.

He saw me smiling and said, "Do you know how to whistle?"

I told him that I'm not very good at it. That I can sing and carry a tune but whistling seems to be beyond me.

He wanted me to show him. "Let me see you try," he said.

I laughed.

Instead I looked up Roger Whittaker's Mexican Whistler on YouTube.
Even Alex was impressed. :-D