Singing

I've decided that maybe this will be a video week for our blog.

I've been trying for a long time to get a good video of Avery singing.
This is actually quite the task, since most of the time she will not sing on demand, and she certainly will not sing if there's a camera anywhere near! So I had to be sneaky to get even the little snippet you're about to watch!

First off, a few reasons why I love this video clip:

• That high pitched little voice she does is adorable, and is the voice she uses when she's having pretend conversations with her toys, or for any imaginary play. So cute!
• The way she stops as soon as she spots me in my hiding place with my camera...
• The way she looks behind her just in case there's any chance I was videoing somebody else!
• The way she continues to mouth the words but won't sing out loud anymore.
  
• Her hands.
• Her hat. She sometimes rediscovers an old toy or hat or something, and she wore this hat all day for 3 days.
  

A while ago I watched a really interesting show on PBS called The Music Instinct: Science and Song. One of the things I found most interesting was a small segment where they talked about a link between the corpus callosum and musical ability. They have found that in general, the most talented of musicians tend to have rather enlarged corpus callosums. This is particularly interesting to me because, as part of Avery's hydrocephalus, she has what's called hypogenesis of the corpus callosum. Meaning that it's only really partially formed. So it makes me wonder whether it goes to follow that she will not be the most talented musician. It also makes me wonder whether some kind of music therapy would be beneficial to stimulate that damaged part of her brain...an interesting thought....