Dancing and Reading

Our new family goal is to get more exercise. We started this evening by dancing along to Moucercise. It was kind of an 80's thing, although there was a Moucercise revival at some point in the 90's with newer Disney songs--we should look into that one too. My mom had my old cassette of Moucercise and the corresponding booklet with dancing instructions and she actually found a CD version somewhere online so we could listen to it. We don't have a tape player anymore. It was tons of fun. Most of the songs are familiar ones from Disney movies. For instance "Step in Time" from Mary Poppins and "I Wanna be Like You-o-o" from Junglebook. In the Junglebook song we pretended to be elephants, bears, snakes, and gorillas with long swaying arms. Hopefully we can find a little time each day to do a couple dances and then we will all feel and look much better. Moucercise is a pretty good workout and Dan said he was feeling it after the first song we danced to.


This is a cool new web page one of the librarians I work with showed me. Fiona and I have been having fun discovering new books and actually being able to read them all the way through, as opposed to Amazon where you only get a few random pages. She loves to be able to point at book covers that look interesting and then we can read them. If she really likes the titles I can add them to our own virtual bookshelf. Pretty cool. Here's one we actually already knew from a story time I recently did about penguins. But Fiona was very excited to see this book on the computer too. Just click on the cover and you can flip through the entire book! If you want to see the book larger you can click on the orange eyes in the upper left corner.




Fiona making Valentine's for her friends at day care. She picked out a cute set with the Littlest Pet Shop characters on it.