Just in case you didn’t believe me when I said that Catherine usually sings her heart out when she hears a song she likes, here’s the evidence. And then I promise I’ll stop with the cute kid videos, OK?
Name That Tune
I confess this footage of my daughter stumps me. I can’t for the life of me remember what on earth she was listening to on the headphones which made her into a human metronome (well, kind of.) Chances are it was either “Hey Soul Sister” by Train, or, um, “Hampsterdance” by that noted songsmith, Hampton the Hampster. It’s strange – …
Wii 0, Life 1
Oh, Wii console, how you have traduced us! Not sure if it’s a terribly American thing to do, but on the 4th of July, the George family went bowling. This was largely at the request of Hallam, who has rediscovered Wii Sports and was curious to see what it was like to bowl for real. Like so many things in …
Family Business
Obviously I’m still excited about my news, but I don’t want to steal anyone’s thunder here. Apparently I’m not the only person in my family doing the book thing. It seems that while we thought she was in her room playing with her dolls, Catherine was hard at work on something quite different. She may only be five, but her …
Diabolical Genius? Or Just a 5 Year-Old?
Exciting episode on Sunday evening. We’d had a lovely weekend – two trips to the swimming pool, a water-fight in the yard, lots of home-cooked food, the original Muppet Movie… all in all, a very relaxing, family-focused time, just the four of us. Catherine’s bedtime was approaching and as usual we were all crammed on to her bed listening to …
Big Dates
Monday, April 19th, marked the seventh anniversary of my family’s permanent arrival in the United States. That I should only have realized this half way through the morning tells you something about how things have changed over those years. In earlier times the occasion was marked by hanging dark shrouds in the windows and playing Elgar at top volume on …
Who Needs Keith Jarrett?
The amazon fairy visited last week, bringing with him (among many other goodies) Keith Jarrett’s latest release, a compelling 3 disc recording of two recent concerts in Paris and London. A full review will appear in due course. But Jarrett isn’t the only one who can, as he modestly puts it, “build a universe” at the piano. Here’s Catherine, simultaneously …
Worth the Wait
Yesterday was a big day. It was Catherine’s first ballet lesson. It’s been a long time coming, but was all the sweeter for it. My daughter is an astonishingly single-minded individual. She has been wanting to have ballet lessons for at least two years. We enquired about them when she first started asking, and were told that she would have …
How to Eat Ice Cream
My father took these photographs while we in France last month. This is in a restaurant in Albi, near to my parents’ home. This is my daughter Catherine, who is four, and who is displaying a gratifyingly Epicurean streak. Good to the last drop, or dollop. Update: my mother has written to tell me, somewhat indignantly, that she was the …
From one musical masterpiece to another…
… This is from last Friday’s talent show at the kids’ school. No quite as cool as the SF Jazz Collective playing Wayne Shorter, but hey. It’s actually wonderful to watch Catherine listen to music. She sways, she beams, she sings along – she completely gets it. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6Nw77CQoB8&hl=en&fs=1&]
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