Capturing Happy Birthday-a Sound Cloud Moment

Week 1 of 52  Thank you to Stacey and Ruth for hosting the Tuesday Slice of Life Challenge!

Capturing Happy Birthday  Click the link to the left to hear the sound cloud... During the March Slice of Life Challenge 2013, I witnessed Kevin (Dogtrax), Stacey, and Alan begin using Sound Cloud to record and capture moments of sound as part of daily slices.  I wanted so badly to join in this fun, but the time just wasn't there to play around and try it out...so, for the time being, I used the "voice memos" button on my iPhone to capture Natalie saying, "Happy Birthday" on Kevin's birthday.

Just today, I registered on Sound Cloud and set up my account.  I played back the voice memo and recorded it on Sound Cloud.  Some new learning for me-thank you for the inspiration Kevin, Stacey and Alan.

Back to the capture of Nattie's voice-she makes me laugh.  She was talking and saying Happy Birthday very clearly and when I took out the phone to record it-she suddenly became shy and would only whisper.  As she watched the timer tick on the phone, she must have thought it was a clock and then became obsessed with saying it was a clock.  Oh, if only I could get in her brain and know what she was really thinking!

I hope to capture more sound cloud moments as slices of my life! 

Tile Becomes a Canvas

NEWSFLASH!  BREAKING NEWS!

A daring little toddler, Nattie, has joined the art world this week, as kitchen floor tile became her canvas!  The tiny artist in residence chose a lovely shade of blue green Crayola crayon as the tool of color!  Within minutes of picking up her tool, she filled her canvas (4-15X15 tiles) with high energy, up and down, strokes of motion!  As soon as her multi-tasking father announced to the world that the artist had done her deed, mama raced to the scene and snatched the tool of choice!  Unfortunately, it was NOT "WASHABLE"!  AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Now, if her mama had been less freaked out  a little more calm about the washability factor, she would have taken pictures of the li'l artist's work (an unfortunate piece of the story).  Instead, mother went straight to work rubbing and scrubbing to remove those strokes of energy from the tile.  Thank goodness it came off-and those crayons are now put away where little toddler hands won't be reaching for a long long time.  (Li'l artist's big brother did something similar with a tool of choice on his wall when he was 3 only it was a washable marker-but maybe that's a slice for another day...)

This experience in the Rudd Art Gallery taught us all a few lessons when it comes to Li'l Artist:

• Expect the unexpected
• Prepare for and try to make the best of the moment
• Put things away when you're done using them~~Big Brother!
• Learn as much as possible from your mistakes and try to do better next time
• Be like Pete the Cat and say, "It's all good!"

When the floor came clean and the water dried, mother had a good laugh...reflected a little and thought out loud, "Oh, Nattie, this is definitely a story for your Mommy Journal..."

This Tuesday's Slice of Life-hosted by Ruth and Stacey @ The Two Writing Teachers