Childrens Music

the kids left...

...but the ants finally arrived for the ant farm--yay! :)  I hope it's not too late to do the butterfly "garden" when we get back from FL.

Some of our tadpoles are getting close to popping our their front legs, I think.  I am totally fascinated by them.  The kids and I sit and watch them for a while a couple times a day.  But the water *stinks*.  I've been doing a half-tank change daily just to keep the smell down.  I think it's the frog food my friend gave me to feed them.  Acky.

So the boys went up to Nana and Grampy's for the night.  They went to a year-end bash thrown by the principal of the school for which my mom works.  The boys had the time of their lives!  They went  for rides on golf carts, hay/wagon rides, paddle boat rides--all with older kids (mostly boys). :)  Mom said they stayed for 5 hours (until 10pm last night) and the boys were begging to go back today (obviously not an option).  *grins*  I just wish I'd been there (or at least had pictures!). :)

I got some organizing done with the math programs, but not a ton.  Thanks to online searching, found a huge list of things I need to go get today from the libarary, including two opera CDs made for kids--I am *so* excited, given how much they love the Beethoven's Wig CD (gads I wish the library had CDs 2 & 3 in that series).  The funny thing is, I hated opera.  The music theory classes I took in college had a listening requirement (20 hours of classical and opera) and at the end of the semester you were given a "drop" test--a random sampling of 15 seconds of a piece and we had to write down the composer, the piece, etc.  Well, the first semester there was quite a lot of opera given for the listening requirement.  I decided I'd take my chances on guessing.  *lol*  Yeah...that didn't go so well.  I failed.  Dr. Barton asked if I'd even listened to...

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