Watch your pockets

How is it that my almost four-year-old has accumulated $55 in his piggy bank?!!

In our effort to explain how you use money to buy things.. We have stumbled into all sorts of new concepts. Let me try to summarize:
– Trying to explain mommy and daddy’s money is in a big bank, a building, where we save our money and we use a card to get the money out. “a really big piggy bank?!” says Davis.
– With his money, Davis wants to buy a really big castle for all of us to play with
– Money can be used to buy little things or one big thing, but that size doesn’t always correlate with price.
…. And the best of all, Davis offered to buy our pizza for dinner when his Daddy grabbed his wallet. Until Bryan explained it would take away half his money.

Such a sweet kid.

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I found a wonderful question on a parents’ blog about children’s music … what would be the first sound of music you would want to share with your newborn child? To me this has to be the utmost personal, touching thought and a true first moment that only a parent can impart on his/her child.

So I thought about it, and there are a lot of songs I sing my children, especially as babies when I get to rock them and dance with them. But I always come back to one song that I think has childhood meaning for me, but also has something I want to share with my children. Hope, honest and pure optimism, believing you can do anything and just the notion that everyone should have dreams they live for.

So for my first musical choice I give you Somewhere Over the Rainbow. And while I LOVE Judy Garland, and the Wizard of Oz is a classic in my memory of musicals I re-enacted repeatedly as a child, it’s the IZ version that I hear in my head. The rhythm is great for swaying, and it’s a mellow take that adapts well to a lullaby. Plus, I think I heard it for the first time when we were in Hawaii pregnant with Davis, and somehow it has just stuck with me.

My gift to you, Reese, is listening to this after bath time to stay calm and help soothe you to sleep. I just wish I had this idea before Davis was born.