Mountain Music

In music class the kids are learning Mountain Music by Alabama. Previously they've learned Rocky Top and Country Roads. I sense a WV theme here. I'd forgotten about Mountain Music. It's been fun listening to Chloe and Owen sing it. Here's the chorus :

Oh, play me some mountain music, like grandma and grandpa used to play.
Then Ill float on down the river to a cajun hideaway

Drift away like Tom Sawyer, ride a raft with ol Huck Finn.
Take a nap like Rip Van Winkle, daze dreamin again.


Owen was singing it today and sang the part about the "cajun hideaway". Then he said "I wonder what is in that cage?". Hilarious. How do I explain cajun??

Ode to Joy

This morning I've been serenaded by the lovely recorder players at my house. Chloe has played Ode to Joy and various other songs she learned at school the past couple years. She's actually pretty good at it. She plays the piano too so she can play songs she normally plays on her piano on the recorder. She has a "real" recorder and Owen has an 88 cent one from Walmart which Phoebe is playing. Notice Phoebe is insisting on wearing her bathing suit today while Chloe is still in her pjs. I'm also in my pjs and Owen is wearing his swim trunks. We're half way to the pool anyway.



Then, just for your entertainment, here is Chloe last night performing a dance for me. Flashdance, anyone???