
The Sound of Music is a huge hit here. When the full-on lethargy hit at about 7wks I could barely keep my eyes open by about 3pm. So we rolled out our tv (it lives in a little cupboard and doesn't actually have an aerial, so it's more a glorified computer screen for DVDs) and Harry got to live large by watching some of her very first screen time. I got out TSOM and just chose the chapters that had the child-friendly songs (Favourite Things, 16 going on 17, Doh Re Mi) as well as the introductory thingy where the children are all introduced to Maria. Well it seemed like a good idea at the time but she was so besotted with the experience that we have had to re-enact the secnes over and over and over again! She likes to be Liesl or Gretel, depending on whether she's scared of the thunder storm and wants to sing Favourite Things or whether she wants to dance and pretend that I'm Rolf (the boyfriend for the uninitiated).


We're also reading Charlotte's Web to her and we're now into the third chapter but that's after re-reading the second chapter a LOT. I would like to point out that the second chapter is about how Fern likes to look after Wilbur as if he is a baby. *sigh*
She got her first joke! Her first proper joke! It's pretty funny, because it was right at the end of a book that we bought on the weekend from a book fair. All of the animals love reading these books (that the hen got by saying "Book! Book!" - get it?!) but the bullfrog is unhappy about it. Why? Because he's already "read it...read it...read it". I was reading it to her and as I am I'm simultaneously thinking about explaining it to her..and then she starts cracking up hysterically. I mean she really, really, really lost it! And in typical three year old fashion we had to re-read it again and again and again. Then she had to tell Papa all about it again and again. Obviously she finds situational stuff funny but this is the first actual joke she's understood completely. I should have known that she'd love puns, I think she's at just the right age for it.

James made the comment when we were totally freaking out about #2 (that we are calling Snippy by the way. If I have to have a Snippy then James gets a 'snippy' too) that by the time Harry is 7, she's going to be one of those girls that sits in a corner reading all weekend and having Snippy might give us something to do on teh weekends too. Well here I was thinking that having a big reader woudl be great for those lazy beer garden Sunday afternoons I had planned, but hopefully Snippy can slot in there somewhere too.
Well that's about all I can be bothered writing up for tonight. Now that Harry has started sleeping for TWELVE HOURS STRAIGHT EVERY NIGHT (yes you read that correctly) it just seems like the perfect time to crankit all up again with another child, hey? *sigh* Off to enjoy my scream-free evening while I can people. Hope this satisfies the Harry appetite for a few days, will be back to do an event update rather than a development update too.
2 comments:
Oh I absolutely must get a copy of Sound of Music now, you've convinced me. Have been thinking lately how Greta would be delighted with the music and enthralled with the children.
Love reading Harry's adventures and development, she is a very clever joy of a girl!
Hope you are feeling OK, hitting second trimester with Greta was a breakthrough in feeling better for me.
Casso....tell Harry that Jennie was in the Sound of Music and played Gretel. HEHE! So when you need a break...or a night off...just give me a call. We can sing our hearts out...as I know the words too. HEHE!
Congrats to you! And get some rest! Now...I am going to have to go home soon...I gotta make another quilt. LOL!!
Jenn
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