our little songwriter

Julianna might just grow up to be a songwriter. She spends lots of time dancing around, making up tunes and the words to go with them. It's kind of like listening to 3-year-old-stream-of-consciousness. Which, depending on your mood, can be insightful.... or irritating :) It's mostly enjoyable, but at 7:15 when I'm feeding Isaac and everyone needs breakfast and no one has changed Lydia's diaper and all I want is a cup of coffee, a 3 year singing stream-of-conscious thoughts at high decibels falls into the irritating category!


In the past 24 hours I've heard her composing with some of these lines, a few of them in the same song:

* "do not interrupt your mommies" - Yep, she's heard this before! Apparently this particular section of the song was instructional, and directed at other young children.

* "the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord" - Bits of memorized Scripture often work their way into her music, frequently out of context (this one was in the verse that followed "do not interrupt your mommies").

* "down in the valley lay the city" - quoted from The Little Engine that Could, which Matt has been reading to the girls in the evenings. She also likes to throw in "and all the dolls and toys cheered" from the same book.

and, this is the one that I think will propel her into song writing fame.....

* "i think kangaroos are not bad for me"

Now WHERE IN THE WORLD did she get that? See what I mean about listening to 3-year-old-stream-of-consciousness?


Oh, and I almost forgot. For those of you who read the previous post about Lydia's ah-pe-tus ... I got some great guesses, including one friend who emailed and guessed it was Isaac's ummmmm, boy part. Kudos to Krisanne and Jaci - it's an OCTOPUS.