Bed Time Song

Tonight is a Monday, and that means that Mary is at show choir rehearsal. So I tucked both kids into bed tonight. As part of her bed time routine we always read Sofi a book, and this week she is favoring a library book called Dirk Bones. But after I was done reading it she pulls out this Christmas greeting card that she tucked away under her covers, and she opens it up, and inside she has colored all over it with color crayons. And she begins pointing at various colors on the card and informs me that each one is a song that we could sing. "Here's a Kitchen Song... here's a Bedtime Song..." Eventually after she gets done naming them all (there was quite a few, and unfortunately I can only remember the above two) she starts to teach me one of them. I can only assume it was the Bedtime Song, and it went like this...

Bed time
Bed time
Oh won't you work for me
Let's sing a song
Let's sing a song
And then we'll go to the museum

We snore
We snore
Dad snores all the time
And Mom
And Mom
She snores day and night

There were actually four verses total, but I was so amazed that she was actually singing her own song (and making it up as she went as far as I can tell), and somewhat shocked by the snoring accusation, that the other two didn't really sink in.

They all had the same pattern of repeating the first and the fourth lines. It was a joy to hear, despite the accusation.

what else does a girl need?

Tonight Sofi and I (Mary) attended a Show Choir Show in our town. I knew she would enjoy it with the singing, dancing, and costumes, but was interested to find out exactly what her reaction would be. When the High School girl's group came on dressed in red sequins, white opera gloves, and white feather boas she was extremely interested. She turned to me and said "Wow Mom look at all the princesses!". She also mentioned that she saw one fairy (I think she was referring to one of the smaller girls). I few minutes later she announced to me that when she grows up she want me to buy her a pair of "clippety clop shoes" (high heels)..........and a treasure chest.

What else does a girl need? Perhaps she is destined for the stage!