4th Bar B Que with friends

After the 4th of July parade, we went and had dinner at Andrew and Luke's house with a bunch of friends. The kids had a blast playing in the pool and sprinklers.

Above from left to right: Harrison, Anna, Tori and Tanner.

Above from left to right: Anna, Tanner, Andrew, Tori and Luke.

Above are all the dads playing bocce ball, from left to right: John, John, Jon and Richard. (Yes we know a lot of Johns out here, a few of the kids when they were younger thought that everyone's dad was just named John.)

Anna, Tori and Andrew having fun playing the piano while we were all getting ready to go see the fireworks.

Above is a video of Anna, Tori and Andrew singing Book of Mormon stories. This is one of Tori's favorite primary songs.

Little Mermaid Song

This is a video of Tori singing the "Look at this stuff, isn't it neat" song from the Little Mermaid. Tori calls it the "Look at this scup, isn't it meat" song and don't try and correct her. In the beginning I tried to help her get the right words, but she likes her words to the song better than the original. She used to sing along to the Disney CD I have in the car to this song all the time. My favorite part is that she actually does the dynamics just like Ariel. The best part is the crescendos at the very end, and she also finishes the song by humming the instrumental part at the end.

Cinderella Song

This is a video of Tori singing one of her favorite songs to sing lately. It's one the mice sing in Cinderella when they are making her dress. I love watching Tori sing this because if you listening carefully she tries to do the voices of the mice. Also, she does actions like kicking that are actually what the mice are doing in the movie when they sing the song. Of course most of Tori's words to the song are made up, but some of them are pretty close to what is actually being sung. Also, at the very end after I tell her "good job" she continues to pretend she is one of the mice going through the wall to the step-sisters' room and then she says what the sisters do in the next scene in the movie.

Angels we have heard on high

Tori's absolutely favorite Christmas song is "Angels We Have Heard On High". Sort of an interesting choice for a two-year old, but I think we sang it in church once and she really liked the "gloria's" and from then on she was always asking me to sing it to her. This video is from Christmas morning when we asked her to sing it for us.