I have a 3-year-old boy in my room this summer who is not a good napper. He wasn’t a good napper in the toddler room, either. He either wiggles and talks on his cot the whole time, or he does sleep, but has night terrors. (Night terrors are where you are near-screaming/sobbing uncontrollably while you are asleep, but you can’t wake up. Fun times.) I have ‘successfully’ helped him sleep a couple of times lately, but as I rubbed his back I looked at his sheet.
The repeating blocky letters spelled ‘MOUSE’ and I could see Mickey’s head, but I kept trying to figure out what the other line was. SKAMEE? KAMEES? AMEESK? MEESKA? After looking too long I would get a headache and give up.
Today I googled it. Apparently it is from the new Mickey Mouse Club and is part of an incantation that brings Mickey to life or something: “Meeska Mooska”. More interestingly, some dude on Answers.com said this: “My wife is Russian, and when she heard it (Meeska Mooska) she immediately said that it was “Mickey Mouse” in Russian. Misha (meesha) is the English equivalent of Michael, and Mishka ( meeshka) is a nickname like Mike or Mickey. Mushka is close to mouse in Russian.
Fascinating, eh?
I know. Not really.