When I arrived at Suzanne’s house after work yesterday, my grandson was having a bath. I hadn’t seen him for a few weeks. I stood in the bathroom doorway and smiled. When he saw me, he stared for a few moments. Then he got a funny little smile on his face and said, “Huh.”
Today we went with Suzanne to the Music Together class. I had decided to take a vacation day. His other three grandparents had already seen music class, and I was determined to get there, especially after hearing that last time he crawled into some unknown grandma’s lap for the lullaby!
Music Together is a great thing for babies and toddlers and their grownups. It’s franchised around the country. My husband and I attended one session a couple years ago with my older grandson in Arlington (where I believe Will McMillan now teaches, and wouldn’t I like to attend that one!)
Today’s class was chaotic and fun, with lots of rhythm and movement activities and little kids running around and banging percussive toys. They were all very good about putting the instruments back in the proper bins. (There’s a special bin called Taster’s Choice. That’s for the instruments that have gone in someone’s mouth during the exercises and thus need extra attention.)
After the little man and I both had a nap, we went to the Children’s Museum. 🙂
Suzanne's Mom's Blog 
Aw.
🙂
What I like with this type of music class is that you learn to do music with anything you can find to do a rhythm. Even if you cannot sing, you do it for the fun of playing with the child.
And our grandson loves it. He is quite a dancer. We danced in the morning before Mama got up. We danced at music class. We danced with Papa before bed … I felt like I was dancing all day and wondered why I don’t everyday.
Oh, that I like. I would have loved to dance togeather with you
You will soon!
I am looking forward to that.
Suzanne just shared this post as well as a couple of other musical posts. Thanks for sharing your experience. So glad you could come with Gustav! Hope it was more fun than chaotic :).
Jennifer Romanat
http://www.eastsidemusictogether.com
It was my idea of chaotic fun! A colleague from East Providence is looking into signing up his 19-month-old daughter now.
That’s great! Thanks so much for telling others. I really appreciate that so much! I’m going to share your blog with my families also, if you don’t mind.
Jennifer Romanat
http://www.eastsidemusictogether.com
I would like that very much. Thank you!
Yay that you have experienced Music Together! It can become chaotic if there are a few rambunctious souls in the class, but the party rolls on as long as the grownups can keep singing, clapping, tapping, etc.
My kind of chaotic fun. I knew I had to take time off work and get down to Providence when I heard my grandson used the lullaby time to curl up in “some other* grandma’s lap!