a new phase!
when the friendly giant tootled out "early one morning" on his alto recorder i really really liked the recorder.
when I had recorders for those elementary school years, i really liked the recorder. (I say recorder in plural because they kept getting lost…..mum?)
when i visited friends who had older kids and they whipped out their recorders to show off their skills and abilities, or even worse, their younger siblings got their hands on their recorders, i didn't care for them as much.
and now, sebastian is the proud owner of a recorder and i dislike the recorder with an intensity bordering on hatred.
how did i go from the friendly giant to this scaly eyed person?
obviously it is all my kids fault.
the kids have refashioned themselves into a modern day partidge family, with much cooler clothes, obviously.
jasper on keyboards, sela on vocals, carys on drums, and sebastian on recorder. today we have guest stars danielle and jessica also on vocals. sadly, after snack they discovered that the batteries weren't working in the keyboards anymore. sadly, the batteries had been removed. sadly.
can you blame me?
they were banging, belting, bashing and tootling. and congratulating each other at the end of a song before launching into another!
other times, the recorder is an item of power, to be used to indicate to siblings which one is the favoured. seb will allow the favourite sibling to use it, leaving the other two to whinge or fight between themselves as to who will be next.
someone pointed out to me, "well, you could just buy three more and be done with it", but i just cannot imagine.
why can't they learn to play the triangle or something?
