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A little night music

Here we are together with Taylor and Chandler Smith
To my delight, Davin is learning to sing. I know that he knows a lot of the words to the songs that we sing because occasionally he would sing with me, but he never really initiated a song on his own. He liked to sing "Love One Another" with me, interjecting his own phrase "ye are my disci-apples" (the phrase to the song is "ye are my disciples"). At Christmas, he would help me finish "Angels We Have Heard on High" with a rousing "In excelsis de-e-oooo!!!" From a boy whose first word was "ball", it is only appropriate that his first song should be "Take Me Out to the Ball Game!" He asked me to sing a ball song the other night at bedtime, and the baseball anthem was the only one that came to mind. Now I catch him at odd moments during the day singing "buy me some peanuts and cracker-jacks" or "root root root for the home team." He is also starting to innovate and develop his own words to songs. We starting singing the "Here We Are Together" song when Rowan was born; he also hears it in nursery and at Mommy and Me activities. For those of you not familiar with this one, it goes: "Here we are together, together, together. Here we are together in our family/nursery/Mommy and Me. There's..." and you list off the names of everyone involved ("Mommy and Daddy and Davin and Rowan" for example). Davin's version is: "There's football and baseball and soccer and tennis." Today in nursery, instead of singing the song with the group, Davin went off to his own corner to sing his version of the song. Sigh. At least he is singing, right?

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Kristen said…
hey! you've probably heard from your mom, but we're bringing some extra baggage to west virginia-- a baby! Due in September, just though you'd wanna know :)
love, us
January 28, 2008 at 3:44 PM
Alec and Emily said…
Hey Katie,
Krissy told me your blog. It is great to see what you guys are up too. Your boys are so cute! Hope everything is going good!
Emi
January 29, 2008 at 9:23 PM
Katie said…
Rob and Kristen, Congratulations!!! We are so excited for you!!! I hope that you are feeling okay (morning sickness is really the pits). We can't wait to see you on this side of the country, especially if you are bringing a new little one. :)
January 31, 2008 at 9:24 PM
Maile said…
Katie, I just tagged you. If you want to participate, you can see the details on my blog!
February 11, 2008 at 9:08 AM
Summer said…
so cute. I love what they come up with. My daughter is really into making up her own songs-they're hilarious. I think my version of that song would go, "there's chocolate, and cheesecake, and brownies, and ice cream, oh here we are together with our favorite foods!"
February 16, 2008 at 9:06 AM
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