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January 08, 2007

Music History

The other day, Ella and I were clicking around on the iTunes Music Store, listening to clips of holiday songs. She loves hearing different renditions of the same song, and while on a mission to track down as many versions of Jingle Bells as we could, Ella fell in love with "Here Comes Santa Claus". Andywilliams We must have heard it 50 different ways, including a very strange rendition compiled from cat meows by a group called The Jingle Cats. In our endless search, we happened to click on the Andy Williams album I grew up listening to around Christmas.

So, I told her, "Ella, this is the Christmas album I always listened to when I was a little girl."

"You mean, with your mommy on her computer?"

My how times have changed...

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Jen

I was just thinking last night how weird it is that Lyra asks (well, demands, actually) to look at ponies and kitties and puppies on the computer. She's happy to look at them in books too, but it's so much quicker to go the computer than to go to the library.

Posted by: Jen | January 09, 2007 at 11:01 AM

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