Marissa Sings
Marissa sings at random times when she is happy. I want to encourage that because I am a musical person too. (Chris nixed my suggestion years ago that we name our first child “Melody.”) When I play songs from Disney animation movies on the piano, she tries to sing along. I use the word “tries” because she doen’t often know the lyrics and, quite frankly, she cannot carry a tune. It is painful.
The family played in the side yard last night and Marissa, in a good mood, started singing “Take Me Out to the Ballgame.” It is a song we don’t have a CD to and I don’t remember ever singing it to her, so she must have learned it in Unified Arts at school. (Unified Arts is what they call it when the school district cannot afford both a music and an arts teacher.) She knew the words and (stop the presses) could carry the tune!
There is hope. Now to convince her that piano lessons would not be torture.