Play that funky music

Our wonderful nanny, Elizabeth, took Ryan to his first music class yesterday and she said they had a great time. She said that Ryan really seemed to like the class, spent the hour dancing around the room, and didn't even try to steal or eat any of the instruments. At least that is progress from the last time we took music class.

I don't know what is the best part of these pictures: the fact that Ryan seems to be enjoying the class or that all of the other kids are sitting nicely watching Ryan as he takes center stage in the middle of the singing circle. For those of you who have never taken a baby music class, the purple thing in Ryan's hand is an egg maraca (no handle so the babies don't poke their eyes out).

Just for old times' sake, here is Ryan in Music Together the first time we took it (March of 2007). Thank goodness he has a better hairstyle now.

Music Together

Soon after Ryan was born, my good friend Carrie's brother-in-law & sister-in-law opened a playspace for kids called appleseeds. It is a great indoor playground not far from our apartment that is catered to kids under 4. In addition to having a big indoor playground (which has a soft play area for infants, a lego area, a magnet wall, a sports section and much more), appleseeds also offers a variety of classes ranging from Baby Yoga to Chinese. When Ryan was around 4 months old, I signed him up for Music Together, which we went to every Sat. for 10 weeks. I think I got more out of it than Ryan did since I liked meeting other new moms (none of which I have ever seen again) and Ryan spent most of the class trying to eat the maracas. Recently, we have been listening to the cd again that we got in the class and Ryan loves dancing around the apartment to it, so I started thinking of signing him up for another class. After looking over the schedule of classes offered, I got it in my head that rather than take music again, Ryan HAD to take the art class offered, my Chelsea art opening, even though the class was for 18 month-olds and up. Before I paid for the class, I decided to try our own art project to see how it would go:












As a result of our art project, Ryan will now be taking Music Together again. First class is tomorrow.