girly games 7

Dancing.

When I’m in the mood – which doesn’t happen often maybe once a week or less – I play the piano for the girls to dance.

Or maybe they dance to their own tune and I get so inspired looking at them I play.

Lulu holds an imaginary guitar (a tennis racket), humming along to the melody, while Jo follows a fixed set of steps which she choreographs in her head.

Once I made up a musical picture, where they were two little birds hatching out of their shells, but they got so terrified at the subsequent passage where the dog hunts the birds down (it wouldn't be exciting otherwise) they never wanted to dance to that tune again.

Now when I play a bit of the dog tune, both girls shriek and cling to me on the piano bench.

A gratuitous dancing vid, thanks to Day who tried very hard to follow the two imps with the camera.