Is over on the MamaBlogga Facebook Page, largely because that was the only way to get the video off Ryan’s cell camera.
Check out the cute video of Rachel’s latest song and dance. Five words: interpretive dance and JAZZ HANDS. I’m so not joking!
Rachel has really taken to Nursery at church. Although she’s still just learning to talk, suddenly she has a whole new kind of vocabulary: songs.
Although she only knows one word of each song (okay, two words for three songs), she knows all of the actions.
This first one I didn’t realize what song she was doing at first until she added the little toss of her hands at the end. It was the “Bee!” that confirmed it:
Her other two favorites from Nursery are another “Bee!” song (“Itsy Bitsy Spider”) and “Dow!” (“Ring Around the Rosy”).
This reminds me of a dinnertime last fall, when Rebecca was talking about a song from her Nursery about an octopus. We don’t know any octopus songs, but Ryan jumped right in to adapt “Head Shoulders Knees and Toes”: “Head, arm, arm, arm, arm, arm, arm, arm, arm . . . .”
“Mouth and beak,” I finished.
Rebecca was not amused. She gave us a very three-year-old glower. “You awe des makin my Desus [Jesus] song siwwy.”
We (okay, it’s just me) are trying to make sure their cultural education is broad in the classics. Witness exhibit 1 (it’s long and mostly sideways):
And exhibit 2, just Rachel:
When you have a child, you want him or her to be able to succeed. To take on the world and win.
When you have two, you want them to do that together.
And some other fun pictures from the park today:
Hayden dancing on the stage and singing his ABCs
What have you done to help prepare your kids to take on the world—including giving them a sibling to work side-by-side with?
I’ve been making soup a lot lately: salsa soup, white bean soup, and coming up this weekend, turkey noodle soup, of course.
Hayden has also been making soup: mostly alphabet.
Yeah, that’s a deep fryer.
In other activities, Hayden has begun singing various and sundry songs, with a little help from us:
He’ll be ready for Don’t Forget the Lyrics any day now.
Not to be forgotten, Rebecca has made her own strides this week. On Monday, she discovered her toes!
Got toes?
I’m finally getting around to uploading all the videos I’ve taken recently. This one features a happy, laughing Rebecca (two and a half months) and a singing, laughing Hayden (two and a half+ years).
Believe it or not, we don’t watch American Idol. The references in the video are to Yo Gabba Gabba episodes, which is where he learned to sing into a “microphone.”
I love this video because it’s hard to get pictures of most of Hayden’s funny expressions, but here we get several of them.
No Haydens were harmed in the making of this video.
