"You'll be happy to know that in our travels this summer your CDs - especially flutes, sticks, and maracas - have been getting a lot of play. Claire loves the Hello Song so much it is even her preferred lullaby!"

"Yes, it is pretty exciting [just finished 9th semester with Winter 2008 Sticks Collection]! Both boys have enjoyed MT since the start, but this semester was special because they both started singing the songs in the collection, starting with Don Alfredo Baila -- I thought it was interesting that Thomas would choose the Spanish song of all the choices, but I have to admit, it's a fun one. And, then of course, Pop goes the Weasel! And Alex will take a shoe off just so he can sing to himself "Deedle deedle dumpling my son Alex ..."

Even though music was an important part of my childhood, MT has really given me a new perspective on it and lowered my inhibitions, so now I'm not afraid to break into song anytime -- and I see my children doing that too. Ok, so we're the crazy family on the block, but who cares, we're having fun! Thanks for giving us that gift! We're looking forward to repeating the Maracas collection in a few weeks!"

"Yesterday Samuel and I were reading a book that
was a song and the music and lyrics were in the back
of it. So I started to sing it to him. Then he started tapping
his knees and saying "hewo! hewo!" (Hello! Hello!), so I
put the book down so we could sing the Hello Song. But
he didn't want that...he wanted to look at the music of this
other song WHILE we sang "hello"! So he doesn't quite
understand that the notes are different for each song, but
he is definitely making the connection that written music is
very important for a song!