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Ivy has put a lot of time and effort into working out Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star and Violet has been working very hard on the Dog & Bird piano scheme, so we bought them some cute little headphones for using with the big keyboard but, as you can see here, they even wear the headphones when there’s nothing to plug them in to (like this little toy-piano)!
It’s so wonderful how children take your plain and boring idea of something (headphones are for isolating sound, right?) and turn it upside-down and colour it in with love and laughter, because headphones, it turns out, are actually for wearing all the time, as a badge of musicality, a symbol of listening, a sign of “this is music time, now, ok?”.
So (and you might say this serves us right for buying them headphones), the girls now have to turn the volume of their dancing-CDs and their toy-pianos up to “volume 11” in order to hear it through the muffling irony of their unplugged-headgear!
Children are a wonder and a joy; the world will be safe in their hands.
Well, not only is it Fathers’ Day and Uncle Gabriel’s First Holy Communion (congratulations, Uncle Gabriel!), but it is also SIX MONTHS since Rosabel was born (unless sleep deprivation (from teaching, btw, not parenting) has warped my sense of time, in which case you should just smile and nod). Well done, Rosabel!
Rosabel at Six Months Old
It is a long time since Violet and Ivy were of such an age. Twas the 5th March 2009 if memory serves me correctly (which it really probably isn’t doing). Violet was about eight and a half pounds, Ivy was about ten and a half pounds, but Rosabel is at least 15 and a half pounds, bless them all. I have trawled the blog to find some images of the twins at a comparable age to their ‘little’ sister…
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Violet sat on the nappy bag, playing our old piano at the little house in Galgate.
Ivy and Violet, looking positively menacing in those hoodies.
Violet and Ivy doing their reusable-nappy dance routine.
I recorded this outside the twins’ bedroom this morning. It’s a lovely example of how they like to sing and chat when they wake up. I’m fairly certain that the melody line is an extemporised variation on Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star sung by Violet, textured with some very inspired contributions from Ivy. Well done girls 🙂
Rosabel has more or less mastered three or four chords on the ‘lele now; we’ll start the WTC on the piano when we get home. We’re due to be discharged this afternoon.
Thank you to everyone who has sent texts, emails, cards etc. It’s a wonderful time for us all.
Violet and Ivy were weighed on Tuesday: Eleven pounds and eight the latter was, the former nine and seven, catching up. But they’re not the only ones getting big. Their parents have of late been growing too, indulging in a stream of cho co late;
(‘if chocolate be the food of love, eat on’) paddling in a flowing river of cake; swimming in a resevoir of biscuit; diving the depths of an ocean of cheese; cruising the seas of awful metaphor. and so on and so forth et-cetera.
Violet, Auntie Lucy and Ivy
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