Correction re: lullaby

I checked the back of the CD - no piano and harp, excuse me. It's "glockenspeil, vibraphone and mellotone, and other soothing instruments." I'll have to sample some and put it up here. Totally hysterical.

Lullaby

After 4 years of the same lullaby CD, Casey decided it was time for a change, and came up with this:

Rockabye Baby: Lullaby Renditions of Metallica

Yep, that's right - soothing piano and harp arrangements of Master of Puppets and other classics. Kind of eerie, I thought, as I'm mentally singing along in my head, "Sleep with one eye open/gripping your pillow tight/exit light/enter night" You've never heard a lullaby done with so many minor keys. Still, it beats her singing herself to sleep with some of the song lyrics she knows, like new Metallica - "Cyanide/I've already died." It's lovely in her child-soprano.

Goblin Day

This morning, as we were leaving for school/work, Ava asked me, "how long until Goblin Day?"



I asked her if she meant Halloween, and she said no, this was the day when we go out to catch Goblins. I pondered this, wondering if this was some pan-global tradition she might have picked up from her very diverse classmates. "Catching Goblins certainly sounds like a good idea," I told her, trying to get more info. "I'm going to catch a big Goblin and eat him up! And I'm going to be an Indian!"



Ah - light goes on. "Do you mean GOBBLER Day - Thanksgiving?"



Yes, that's it. We're going to catch some fierce Goblins and eat them up.



Perhaps the most ironic thing here is that her teacher is a true Indian - as in the kind from India, so I'm wondering if she thinks she's planning on wearing a sari to hunt down those viscious goblins.