Money and CD's

Last week, Natalie grabbed a store flyer. She was hoping to get a toy or two, so she got out the change jug and sat down at the kitchen table. Nate and I were sitting in the living room, when we heard a shout of excitement from Natalie. She said, "Yes! I have enough money!" I asked her how much money she had, and Natalie responded by saying, "I counted out a pile with 22 and another with 37." Nate had her bring him the flyer, and he quickly saw that she had been looking at the table of contents. Her 22 and 37 came from the page numbers the Barbie happened to be on. We both thought this was pretty cute. How can you say no to a child with enthusiasm like that?

After reading the weekly newsletter that Natalie's teacher sends home, I found out that she and her class will be putting on a musical that I was in when I was about her age. I was pretty excited about this, so when Natalie and I went down to celebrate my mom's birthday last weekend, I put the RECORD on to listen to all of the songs. A couple days later when I dropped Natalie off at school, the teacher was playing some of the songs to this musical. We started talking about it, and her teacher told me something really cute that Natalie told her about listening to it with me at my parents house. She told her teacher that we had listened to the musical on the "biggest CD" she had ever seen.