Singing!

Life has become, as Catherine put it, "a perpetual opera" for Rand. He found his singing voice a couple of weeks ago and now goes through the day singing and singing and singing! He sings about his pants, and bananas, and trains, and Otto. Usually the "song" consists of him singing one word (like "trains, trains, trains, train!") over and over, loudly and with gusto!

Werner taught him the silly old hymn "Jesus is Like the Rain" and they like to sing that together. Werner is quite pleased that Rand already has an idea of pitch and has high hopes that he will get daddy's and not mommy's singing voice.

Rand woke up very very early yesterday after going to bed very very late. He came into my room and asked for a banana. I was trying desperately to get just a few more minutes of sleep (hah!) so I told him to get his stool and get it off of the counter himself. Rand said that it was too high, and I asked him to just pretty please just try for mommy's sake to get the banana himself. He pattered off, and a few minutes later came back into the bedroom -- beaming, and with a banana! He told me that he went "way up into the sky and got a banana!" It was so cute how proud he was of himself.