The Sound of Music...

It all started one evening in 2003. We were driving home and the sun was setting. Lorien, a curious toddler, asked why it was getting dark. We explained that it was time for the sun to go to bed. Dipping below the tree line, the sun was putting on its pajamas. Once it got dark we said: "Oh, the sun has gone to bed! Now it is time for Lorien to go to bed!" We started singing Gretel's line from the Sound of Music "The sun, has gone, to bed and so must I." Using the suns setting as a visual cue to hurry our kids to bed served our family well until day light savings of this year. Clare is adamant: "Momma!" she begins to shout (at 4:45 pm) "The sun has gone to bed and so must I!!!" She flops on the floor, cries for her pajamas and refuses to eat supper. Theeeee sun...haaaaas gone...to bed aaaaaand so MUST she. Now Cassie, say ye, what is the harm in snapping that little sucker right into her bed and calling it a night? Pick your battles, right? I'll tell you what the problem is, when she goes to bed at 5:00 pm, she is awake at 3:30 AM! Even if the sun has NOT gotten out of bed Clare will. Nothing ruins your day like having to get out of a warm bed at an unearthly hour. So, we fight...

Clare, listening to the "So Long, Farewell..." song from the Sound of Music soundtrack.

After a few nights of watching Clare listen to my iPod with the Sound of Music on it, Wyatt asked to listen. The Sound of Music was not what he wanted. "Momma, don't you have any Rock n' Roll?" He asked. "Why, yes. Yes I do." Here he is jamming out to Joan Jet, next up: Aerosmith.