Musical Child

Well the week is half over, and the weekend full of...nothing:) is up ahead. It's a good thing cause my house is terrible. Genni keeps saying everytime we get home, "this is a mess!", haha, yes it is hunny. So on Monday Eric had to go to the county meeting and get his and my music for All County Band and Grandma has choir on Mondays - which means Genni came to musical rehearsal with me. I figured she'd be OK, she comes to choir with me sometimes and she's fine. She'll walk around and play with her toys, watch sometimes, stand next to me while I work. She actually only tries to talk to me when it doesn't look like I'm busy so she's a pretty perceptive child, or I'm just lucky most of the time. Her two big temptations at musical rehearsal are - the drum set (Eric must have jazz band in there sometimes) - she likes to step on the high hat and the bass drum pedal - and the keyboard. Only occasionaly, thank goodness, she will come up next to me and start playing the piano while I'm playing. Haha, since it's an electric piano though, I turned it off on her a few times and she was very confused, "what happened to the sound mommy?" "I turned it off hunny", "no! don't turn it off on me!". It really is interesting though watching her with the kids from the musical. They keep an eye on her when they aren't on stage, and I even saw a couple of the boys reading her Thomas book to her when I turned around to check on her. How cute! I talked to her before rehearsal about not getting up on stage and she seems to have actually listened. Isn't it amazing - I can't imagine her not understanding me and talking to me like she does, but it wasn't that long go that she couldn't. Time flies. At the end of rehearsal she says - "I sang mommy! I sang with everyone!" I don't doubt it. She will either grow up loving music and theater - or hating it cause she was involved in it since birth! Let's hope she loves it....