Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Olde Time Piano Party



We got our piano on Monday and J appears to really enjoy it. Tonight she sat and played by herself for about 20 minutes. I would ask her what song she was playing and this was her set list:
- Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
- Old MacDonald
- London Bridge
- Ballerina Song
- Santa Brings Me Presents

None of the real songs involve the actual notes of the song, just her playing and singing along. The last two are original compositions. The Ballerina Song involves, yup a ballerina and she apparently can go on tippy toes. Santa Brings Me Presents is a moving piece about how J wants presents and Santa will put them under the tree but she only wants to see him through a telescope. It is well documented that J hates Santa in person. However, she does enjoy him in the abstract due to the presents he brings. I guess she was reading a book or something where Dora the Explorer or her cousin Diego uses a telescope to see Santa and the reindeer flying in the sky. In her mind, the telescope solved her problem of hating Santa in person, she could just keep up with him via telescope. She is a born problem solver.

So here are some pictures of her playing the piano, our tree, and our cat Buddy (J named him) lounging about. And yes she is wearing a tie-die t-shirt that was purchased in SF by....MY PARENTS. I know, you were going to guess X. But X is tragically HIP, not a tragic HIPPIE. Totally different.

Happy Holidays!

4 comments:

Bizarley said...

see if J will play "apple bottom jeans" on piano

aposeym said...

yay to little girls still playing the piano! I played for more years than i care to remember, and thought this tradition was slowly dying out!

bang away J!

Megan Dempsey said...

Is Buddy turning the pages? Such cute pix! I love her already expansive repertoire of music.

J U S T S O M E G UY said...

A high five seems more appropriate than sitting on santa's lap anyway in my opinion. I love how buddy sits up on the piano and enjoys the music.