Singing Songs

Josephine has been going to Kindermusik class for about a month now. She's obsessed!!! We have a CD that has some songs that we sing or hear there and she wants to listen to it all the time! The class has been great for Josephine. She's too shy to do much in the class except play the instruments, but at home during the rest of the week she talks about it non-stop. She will sing with some of the songs, too. I can't get her to sing with any of her other cds. There's a track that has horse sounds (trotting, gallopping, and neighing) that she waits for. She starts wating and asking 2 songs before it. Ring around the rosie is one of her favorites too. She sits down on the floor as hard as she can when "we all fall down" is sung. So funny. If a song comes on that we have heard in class she repeats "Music class! Music class!" until you acknowledge that yes, it was a song we heard in music class.

Josephine is singing more songs even without the cd now. She sings her abcs well. We can even go back and forth with her. Nathan or I will sing "abcd" then she will do the next part, then it will be our turn, etc. She can do that counting to 10 too. Very impressive. : ) She will sing Ring Around the Rosie too.

Josephine the day after Halloween. She wore her cow costume to Kindermusik. I wish I had thought of it on Halloween. She wouldn't wear a costume that night.

Josephine in her bunny ears at Granna's.

Jo and Naomi playing.

Aww. How sweet.

More goofiness.

Funny random story. Josephine loves octopi. We checked a book out of the library about them. In one picture there is a picture of an octopus carrying her eggs in her tentacles. (Josephine can tell you that an octopus has 8 tentacles.) Last night I was looking at an ultrasound picture of a lady I know online who is having twins. I explained to Josephine that people carry their eggs/babies inside their tummies instead of carrying them around like the octopus and that we were looking at a picture of the babies in her tummy. Josephine looked at the picture for a minute, pointed to it, and said "octopus". I don't think she got it. : )

Last week Josephine was obsessed with Cranberry Apple Juice. This week she's on a Pineapple Orange Juice kick. She gets very upset if you try to give her something else. Who knows what it will be next week. It's still quite an ordeal to get her to eat non-pureed vegetables. She'll eat them if it comes from Granna's garden or out of a babyfood jar, though. Anyone have any suggestions on how to get her to eat the solid vegetables? One strange food she loves is banana peppers. She eats them straight out of Granna's garden. She'll eat a banana pepper but not a pea. Arg.

Congrats to Jane who had her son Wil last Sunday!!!!