Do-Re-Mi

Lauren has been playing around quite a bit on the piano since we brought it to our house from Mom and Dad's.  Yesterday I played a simple scale on the piano and started singing Do-Re-Mi as I played.  Lauren kept practicing and singing that scale until she could sing it forward and backward.  I started singing the song Julie Andrews sings in The Sound of Music and Lauren has learned that, too.  So today I pulled out my VHS copy of The Sound of Music and fast-forwarded to that particular song for Lauren to listen to,  After watching that part of the movie, the girls decided they wanted to watch the whole movie.  So tonight we started and watched the first half of the movie.  The girls really loved it.  When it was time to stop the movie for bedtime, it was at the part of the movie where the kids sing the "So Long, Farewell" song.  The girls called it the "Good Night" song and tried to sing it on their way up the stairs to bed.  They decided they would have to practice that song tomorrow so they could sing it.


I sure love how my girls get excited over things and incorporate those things into their play.  One of their favorite things to play right now is "Laura and Mary" from the Laura Ingalls Wilder books.  Lauren and I just started On the Shores of Silver Lake after Christmas.  I do not remember reading that one as a child (maybe I didn't read it because it was so sad!!!!)  In the first two chapters you find out Mary is blind, Pa leaves to go west to claim a homestead and Jack, their dog dies.  Lauren and I cried our eyes out after reading those first two chapters.  I was a little hesitant to read chapter three with her.  But luckily it was not sad!

We are really enjoying Christmas vacation and all the time we get to spend enjoying our favorite books, movies, and just being together.

Here's a picture of my budding pianists