Wordless Wednesday

They clearly needed the sunglasses to stack the play food in the blinds.

Chocolate Giveaway AGAIN!

Everyone knows I love chocolate. When Color Earth wanted me to try their chocolates and do a review I was thrilled. These aren't just any chocolates. These are dark chocolate multivitamins. Yes, you read that right. These are multivitamins hidden inside a dark chocolate.

I tried them and honestly, they taste like dark chocolate. I passed them around work and everyone who likes dark chocolate loves them. Everyone who doesn't like dark chocolate hates them. That makes it easy to predict if you will like these.

I will mention one negative things about these. You don't want to let your kids sneak too many of these because it can cause a laxative effect. The recommended dosage for a child is one per day and for an adult they recommend between 1-4 per day. That's one way to make sure you limit your intake.

The best part is that Color Earth is doing a giveaway of a year's supply worth of chocolates to 20 winners! You can go to their web page to enter. Click here to visit Color Earth

Learning to Transpose Music

Both kids started a group music/piano class when they were 3. At age 4 Sweet Son moved to private lessons while Sweet Daughter continued to thrive in the group class. The group class had a recital that included the group singing and dancing, playing pianos as a group, and playing individual solos. I have included the group piano playing because it's the only video you can't see any other kids in (they are sitting at pianos facing the other direction).

The most impressive part of this isn't just how well they are playing at 4 years old, though that is impressive. They all learned to transpose between C, G, and F. Yes, these are easy songs - they are preschoolers after all. The concept of even understanding what transposing means is difficult for many older musicians. Actually being able to apply that knowledge is amazing.

It's a long video because they play so many songs, feel free to just watch a short part.

Ice Skating Videos

This is a continuation of yesterday's post. Here is the video proof that the kids are getting better at ice skating.

Using the skating help to build confidence.

Slow but steady, really slow and mostly steady anyway