Express yourself...CREATE

...the ability is within us all...

Express yourself...words again!

Little M is camera shy. She doesn't perform. But she knows her ABC song and she knows it really well. I finally got this on camera by setting it up and ignoring it, and she still just mumbles her way through...it was the best I could get though! Still pretty cute for a one-year-old...

Express yourself...dance!

...this is my girls favorite song to dance to...and they will listen to it over and over and over and over...their style is a little unique (actually, they have about as much style as their mom). It mostly involves walking in a big circle...often with whatever prop they find from stuffed animals, to alphabet squares, to musical instruments...but mostly just walking around in that circle. My sister joined us with her little girl (and she is also expecting a little girl!) for this one... (pause my other music first!)

Practicing for June...

...and another little girl...

we are very grateful...

...to my hubby for all of his hard work...for getting his MBA...

to be done... ...and to OUTTA there...always...TRUE BLUE!!! CONGRATS, my love!!

(though, wow, didn't the reds do AWESOME this year?!)

Express yourself through...WORDS!!!

One of our favorite Christmas gifts was this Fisher Price ABC zoo animals:
Two days after playing with it, Boo, my little no-talker, belted out the entire ABC song. WOW!

You didn't know the ABC song had an alternate French ending did you? Well, it doesn't. She's singing the last lines to the song the little children sing on "South Pacific" (Dites moi). THAT was the first song she ever sang by herself. It was coming back from our Thanksgiving vacation to Arizona. She'd been quiet for a long time, gazing out the window, and then, I heard it:
"Est-ce que
Parce que
Vous m'aimez?"
What?! Is that what I think it was?! She was grinning from ear to ear (she's got a great grin you know, and she can really do that, grin that big). I had sung that song to her, maybe six times total, and not for a couple of weeks at least. And now this! The first song she ever sings by herself. What an amazing girl!
Well, since that and now the ABC song, she's a constant singer and I love to hear it...another ordinary miracle in our home.

"I can't put my arms down!"

what movie what movie!?!

I really can't...help...