Classy Kids

I overheard Ryan humming classical music yesterday. Although he may have heard the song on a Bugs Bunny cartoon, I attribute his new found love of the Arts to his recent fascination with our Beethoven's Wig CDs. They feature well-known classical music selections along with crazy lyrics that tell a bit about the song and its composer. All the boys love the cds and were actually arguing over what songs we should play in the van this evening.

Another example: Adam was playing with his Nintendo DS and wanted to show me something. On the NintenDogs game, there is a section where you can play music for the dogs (on a record player!). He was excited that one of the choices was Hayden's Surprise Symphony. He recognized it from listening to those cds! And Jeff was suitably impressed that Adam knew the composer and title of the piece. :)

And, lest you think the cds only encourage an appreciation of the Arts, Evan is using them to learn double digit addition. While driving home today (we listen to the cds in the van), he told me that 11 + 11 = 22. He was very excited and so was I. I asked him how he figured that out. It's b/c the Beethoven's Wig CD plays 11 selections with lyrics and then repeats those same 11 selections without lyrics. There are 22 tracks on the cd; 11 tracks with lyrics + 11 tracks without lyrics = 22 tracks. And they know all the songs by their track number... for every cd we own. They request songs by number. It's really quite amazing but not the subject of this post. LOL