guitars

Rebecca became a HUGE Laurie Berkner fan overnight. It all started at the bus stop one afternoon a few months ago. We had driven to the bus stop, since it was cold or rainy, or snowing, or something (those are usually the reasons I drive, but I can't remember which it was that day!) and we were waiting quite awhile for the bus (it's often late...which is another story for another day.) Anyway, we were waiting and Rebecca was getting antsy. I put in a Laurie Berkner CD that I happened to have in the car to try and distract her. The first song is "Rocketship Run" and for some reason, she loved it. Later that evening, she said she wanted to listen to it again. It was in the car, so instead I looked it up on YouTube. She was enthralled and watched several Laurie Berkner videos that night. That started her asking every day if she could watch Laurie Berkner on my ipad. So I got a couple of her videos from the library and she asked to watch them over and over.

And she became obsessed.  She's been really into guitars, ever since she started liking the Wiggles and started playing with the Wiggles guitar we have, but her love for Laurie Berkner has taken her love for guitars to a new level.  She has two toy guitars, but pretty much everything in the house has become a guitar in the last month or two.  Brooms, a toy keyboard, a hand mirror, magnifying glasses....  Everything she owns has the potential of becoming a guitar at some point in the day. 

A few weeks ago she handed me a guitar, took a guitar for herself, and said, "Mommy, wet's wok and woll!" 

When she goes to someone's house she asks, "Do they have any guitars there?"

She keeps telling me that she wants to be Laurie Berkner when she grows up, and wants a Laurie Berkner costume. Since Laurie Berkner wears regular clothes and nothing too crazy, I'm not quite sure what a Laurie Berkner costume would look like. 

Since I seem to have some sort of weird knack for winning tickets (we just went to a show this weekend for which I won tickets!), I entered to win tickets to a Laurie Berkner concert here in town in a few weeks.  I find out today if I won or not.  I don't really care one way or the other if I win, but it would be crazy if I did.

We'd already decided on a Mickey Mouse theme for her birthday coming up at the end of the month (she's been talking about it for weeks), but in the last few days she's been telling me that she wants a Laurie Berkner cake....a guitar cake...a Rocketship cake (because of the song "Rocketship Run") and so on.  I'm sticking with Mickey Mouse, since I can handle a Mickey Mouse cake.  Sorry, Rebecca. 

So, in other news, potty training continues to go well.  She's really only had a handful of accidents, and even then, they've been small.  I'm amazed at how quickly she got it.  I don't feel like I really did much...just that she was ready.

I went with Rachel and the rest of the first grade on their field trip to the zoo yesterday.  It was a gorgeous, sunny day, and she was giddy with excitement.  It was a long day, but she had fun.  I was wearing my pedometer and we walked five miles all around that zoo! 

It's hard to believe that it's only a few more weeks until summer.  There's a lot going on between now and then.