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Piano

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Miya, out of her own today, played Mary had a Little Lamb in Sol-Mi-Do position! Adapting her lessons to whatever she wants to experiment with, going beyond the necessary, playing with her possibilities. So proud. Oh… just by the way, I asked her today if she really liked her music class now that she’s playing [...]

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Calculations

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

I’ve been in the car for hours No, Silly, its only been 5 minutes But it feels like an hour! Hey Mom, let’s say 5 minutes is an hour Okay Then 60 minutes is 12 hours. … !

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Counting to 12

Thursday, February 2, 2012

Miya: “Mommy, did you know there are different ways to count to 12?” Me: “Mmm. Really? Like what?” Miya: “Well, you can say one, two, three, four, five, [etc], twelve, or you can count two, four, six, [etc], twelve.” Me: “Oh wow, that’s nicely done love.” Miya: (sighing cause I interrupted her again…) “And then [...]

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Keyboard classes

Saturday, January 21, 2012

“Mommy!”, she whispers to me as she stands, beautifully bohemian in her floral skirt and t-shirt and wild, wild hair. “I *love* this class”. She smiles and turns back, focusing her fingers on the correct keyboard positions.

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Little Keyboard Music Maker

Saturday, January 14, 2012

Miya has been bumped up to Keyboard class at music. She enjoyed it tremendously much and has been busy the whole day practicing and telling me about the music and so on. She is even going around making “DO-RE-ME” kind of songs….. Um yes. Okay. Well…. here we go – ROCK ON!

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It’s like a game in my mouth!

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

After having a handful of berries (I *SO* love fresh berry season – the girls have berries all day long!), Miya said “You know, this is so delicious, it’s like the berries are having a game in my mouth.”

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Admonished

Monday, January 9, 2012

Today, after Ricky got angry with Leia and told her firmly “No! Do not mess inside.”, Miya piped up and said: “No Daddy. You know if you talk like that to Leia it is how she will talk to her children one day.” Um. Okay. Reproached.

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Music in my ears

Monday, January 9, 2012

Today at Leia’s music class, I told Teacher Cherise that Miya had composed her own song (s) over December and that she played Twinkle Twinkle on her new keyboard by ear. She was so impressed that she asked if we wanted to move Miiya to a keyboard class…. Wow! Of course, we’ll first go see [...]

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Date Day

Saturday, January 7, 2012

What a fantastic day! Miya and Rick went off Geocaching for their special date day and Leia and I just spent some one-on-one time together – playing, tickling and general rough housing on the bed, building puzzles, drawing pictures and pasting pictures. And then for our lunch out, we went to MSquared for pizza – [...]

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Composer

Friday, January 6, 2012

Miya composed her own song today!! 8172666 8172666 8172333 8172333 4545

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