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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