Learning German Songs

Today we went to the German Musik Spielgruppe (which is the way you say music play group). It was really cute and Maggie LOVED it. She jumped right in from the beginning and did all the motions and tried to sing the words. Owen liked all the singing and dancing around too, he just clapped his hands and tried to sing along. There were beams and mats set up and they were teaching them how to do sommersaults and walk on the balance beams and jump into the mats so Maggie liked that too and did really well. We played a game where the mom's put these colorful scarfs on and the kids had to chase their parent and get the scarfs.




Then the kids did it and we had to catch them, Maggie loved this game, but after the first time she realized there was pink and only wanted all pink scarfs which there weren't alot of. The teacher spoke english pretty well so she would expalin to me what we were doing and there were 3 other moms who spoke english also that were very nice. We all had alot of fun so we will definetly be doing that every week. And in the end I am sure we'll all know many german songs, although we may not know what we're saying. It lasted about 2 hours (from 9-11) so it's a pretty bad time for Owen since he is usually taking his morning nap then, but he was really good and since Maggie loved it so much I figure once a week we can throw out his morning nap. When we got home he was ready to crash and took about a 3 hour nap, he woke up right as Maggie was going down which is always a bummer. :( But now he's enjoying himself in the toy room doing what he always does when she's napping and he's not.....playing with everything she won't let him touch.


It's like he knows this is his time to get into it all and boy does he.

I think we are going to go out to eat downtown somewhere this evening. Joe is heading out early today so we should be able to eat at a decent hour hopefully.