{"id":822,"date":"2008-03-13T20:17:54","date_gmt":"2008-03-13T12:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mytwogirls.net\/?p=822"},"modified":"2008-03-14T08:29:29","modified_gmt":"2008-03-14T00:29:29","slug":"minds-filled-with-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mytwogirls.net\/?p=822","title":{"rendered":"Minds Filled With Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"

I sing a lot to the girls, sometimes giving instructions in songs (which I made up the lyrics), sometimes just songs to sooth them, to entertain them, to teach them.<\/p>\n

E.g.
\nBefore bed time, I may sing Twinkle Twinkle Little Stars, or Barney’s I Love You.
\nTo get them to bath, especially Zara, I’ll sing (a silly song and tune I created), “Your hair so smelly smelly, It’ll kill all the buggies. Quickly go washy washy, to get rid of the smelly.”<\/span>
\nOr we’ll have Jackie Cheung’s karaoke<\/a> at home.<\/p>\n

The girls grew up with songs, and hence their minds are filled with songs too.<\/p>\n

When Zaria sees a moon (the real thing or in the book), she’ll point to it and say, “Moon”.<\/span>
\nThen she’ll ‘sing’ “Ke Ke… Star”<\/span>; her version of Twinkle Twinkle Little Stars.<\/p>\n

When Zaria sees a rainbow, she’ll point to it and say, “(Rain)bow”.<\/span>, looks at me “Uh.. Uh”.<\/span>; and waits for me to sing Somewhere Over The Rainbow.<\/p>\n

\"Zaria<\/p>\n

Zaria after a bath. (This has got nothing to do with this topic but I really like this photo.)<\/span><\/p>\n

Zara is constantly entertaining us or herself with song singing throughout the whole day. Sometimes at the most inappropriate time as well, like during\u00c2\u00a0dinner time, she’ll sing with her mouth full or takes forever to finish because she’s singing more than eating.<\/p>\n

She also likes to create her own tune and lyrics to reply to me, like e.g. “No, no, no, I don’t want to eat this one”<\/span> when a vege she dislikes is offered to her.<\/p>\n

Yesterday I made some pan cakes for breakfast, and got Zara to help me. While helping she sang a new song I never heard before,
\nMix the pan cake
\nStir the pan cake
\nPour it in a pan
\nTurn the pan cake
\nToss the pan cake
\nCatch it if you can.<\/span>
\n(She said she learnt that from school)<\/p>\n

So if you are in this neighbourhood, you’ll know which house is mine with all the\u00c2\u00a0melodic<\/strike> singing coming from. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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