Two of My Favorite Things

Today was Abby's birthday. She is really 4! And she is really infatuated with "The Sound of Music." So that was the theme of her birthday party. I will post photos of the party soon, but I wanted to start with a post of a video from our family celebration this evening. We headed out to EZs and Abby said "Mommy, this is the first time I was ever 4!" At dinner, the girls were still wearing their party dresses, "girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes..." except Katie had changed out of her nice white sandals into her pink crocs. I wanted to insist that she put her white shoes back on, but then I remembered an incident a few weeks ago when I insisted she put her shoes back on, and she was more adamant than normal to take them off... later, I discovered that she had an almond in her sock and she had been trying to set it free! Just yesterday, she kept sitting down at the park to take off her shoes, and I kept asking her to put them back on... that evening she had a blister on her foot!

The girls sing these songs from the Sound of Music constantly. Katie calls the movie "So Bad" because of the line in "Favorite Things". The first time Abby watched the movie, she unexpectedly told me that when she gets to heaven she could tell Maria that she likes her dress. Abby recently told me she wants to "go to Sound of Music." I thought she meant that she wants to go to see the musical, so I made a mental note to check the theater schedule. But then it became clear she meant she wanted to go to the VonTrapp Family home in Salsburg. When I explained that Maria and the VonTrapps are no longer alive, she said "Oh no!"

Enjoy the video of two of my "favorite things"...

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Easter Delight

Although I have many more great photos from Easter to post soon, I couldn't resist sharing this fabulous one that Mel captured. Mimi had just presented to the other two girls their Easter presents and she asked Katie if she wanted one to? Katie spontaneously jumped up in the air, hollered "I do!" and then landed on her bottom. This is so "Katie". Whenever she hears something she agrees with, she hollers "Me!" or "I do". The funniest context for this declaration was at church, when our pastor announced to visitors that we would have cookies and coffee in the foyer after the service, and Katie spontaneously hollered in the middle of the service, "Me!"

Show Me The Way

Katie has a voice of her own...

Bedtime Performance

Tonight we read a book called "What is Easter". After we finished, Abby performed her musical interpretation of the book. It should be on Broadway by next Easter...