Phoebe singing

Phoebe likes to sing. She often mixes a couple songs together, like she'll start singing Mary Had a Little Lamb, but end it with Row Row Row Your Boat. I tried to get a video of her singing, but she was distracted by her beloved Emma, her favorite, now scruffy, doll. She still sang a little for me. At the end I tell her bye so I can turn off the camera, and she gets a concerned look on her face like she thinks I'm going somewhere. So, here's the singing debut of Miss Phoebe.

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??

Cue the Choir!

Phoebe has a new cute thing she does. She has the little Leap Frog Activity Table that plays music. She goes over and turns it on. Then she gets a book (always the same book, I think because it is hardback) and she stands with it open and sings. Cute in itself, but then I realized she is doing it because at church we stand and sing with our hymnals open. SO adorable I can hardly stand it. I can watch her do it over and over. When the music stops, she goes over and starts it again.



As not to leave the other two out and their cuteness, today Chloe and I went to the grocery store together. It doesn't often happen that it is just the two of us. Phoebe and Owen stayed with Danny. Phoebe napped while we were gone. Chloe was helping put the bags in the cart when we were checking out. I thanked her and she said "I don't think you could've handled this on your own".
On the way home from a friend's house this evening we were going along listening to a cd and Owen suddenly said "I've never ate shrimp before". Okay then.