Music - Our Family Update

Next to family and religion my most favorite thing in the world is music. I love to share good music with my girls. And they like it as well. We love Peter and the Wolf and Carnival of the Animals. I especially love the Carnival of the Animals because we can pretend we're those silly animals and my girls love to dance with it in the background. I have lots of short video clips with them dancing to this. Somewhere...

This school year Emily began taking piano lessons. Meredith joins her for a little of it. She wants me to teach her, but I want her to wait. They've been discovering the piano together though. This morning they were sitting on the piano playing around. Emily and Meredith started talking about what it sounded like when they played something. Emily told Meredith, "it's flying" as she played a little melody. Meredith played some bass notes and says, "It's angry." She played some middle notes and says, "It's happy." And I'm thinking while they are in the middle of their conversation, "Woo Hoo! That's exactly what I want! Yes, Yes, YES!"

They also love to sing with me at the piano. They have their own little "stage" that they perform on. The little ledge by the fireplace. We work on a song a week, and you can actually hear the words. I'm so glad I can share one of my favorite things with some of my most favorite people, my precious little girls.