While we were in Michigan a few weeks ago, an old family friend stopped over at my parent’s house and entertained us all by putting on a performance of her puppet show, starring Coco the monkey. It was actually a very special moment for me to experience with Aviva and Joelle, as I have such fond memories of seeing the same show when I was younger. Aviva was enthralled with it all, but was especially amazed (and laughing) when Maureen/Coco pulled out her/his kazoo, and started (through ventriloquism) playing the kazoo; Aviva giggled more than any of us had seen before, and was rapt with attention whenever she guessed the kazoo was coming back out.
Upon arriving back in Seattle, I had finally got around to buying a kazoo for myself to entertain Aviva last weekend. As I dropped it on the floor by mistake last evening, Aviva “scooted” towards it, and picked it up – turns out, she’s quite a natural kazoo player – who knew?
Here she is learning the kazoo:
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And here she is putting on quite a performance: (and yes, she’s starting to sit a little – can’t really hold it too well yet, so I am holding on to her feet in this video)
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(as always, you might need to view the actual post to see the video.)
