Singing, pretend games, blueberries and stickers

Can you guess the song by the lyrics? (Madeleine's version, that is):

1. Twinkle twinkle, how wonner up a high!

2. Happy to you! Happy to you!

3. Twain is comin' OH yeah, chuh-chuh-choo-choo, chuh-chuh-choo-choo, chillen OH yeah.

4. S'Wainin! A powin! Snowin!


On another note, Julia proved that no toy is to be outgrown in this house, as she set up a wild pretend game with one of the little balls that went to the infant fishbowl both girls played with when younger. Having found this ball under the couch, she quickly set up a narrative about the life of the little spinning fish inside the ball:

"Once there was a little fish, and she was not happy because she was not in the ocean." (Turning to me with a huge, excited grin on her face) "Are you like, oh yeah! This is gonna be an ADVENTURE story!?"

After I confirmed that I was totally excited about the adventure story, she resumed her narrative:

"But she knew a shell, and she knew her mom."

The game then took a more elaborate turn, as Julia decided to fill up a tupperware bowl with water in which to submerge the ball. While I was helping her find an appropriate tupperware, Madeleine decided to pull the blueberries out of the fridge, spill them all over the floor, and then eat them one by one off the floor, squealing "Mmm!" with each bite:



Once the blueberries were cleaned up, Julia was able to resume her game, putting the fishy ball into the bowl of water:



The narration carried on as follows:

"But she's still not happy, because she's in her EGG!"
Julia then swooshed the ball around in the water, providing the following song as musical narration: "She swimmed and she swimmed, but she doesn't know the niiiight!"

When the song ended, she dove back into story-telling:

"And then she JUMPED out of the water and onto the table. 'I'm not suuuuure!!' So she splashed into the water. But she needs some friends!"
Julia ran off to get the following friend:


Despite the happy meeting between the fishy ball and her friend, the birdie puzzle piece, the poor fish was about to encounter some danger:

"And then a man TOOK the little baby fish out! She drinked through her nose, so she jumped back in and Mom! look how she's drinking! Then somebody took her out, took the fishbowl, and she couldn't swim."

Apparently that was the end of the story. I seemed to misinterpret the tone of the ending, though:

ME: Oh no! So it's a sad ending?
JULIA: No! Someone can TEACH her how to swim again!

Meanwhile, as the fish story drew to a close, Madeleine busied herself by covering parts of her body with Julia's princess stickers:



To sum up this entire post: A totally typical morning in the Rowe household.