dynamic elf

I've known for a while that Natalie is strongly motivated by music. She loves hearing songs, and there were lots of times when she was a baby when the only thing in the world that would calm her down was one of us singing her a song (preferably, multiple people singing it as a round). That would grab her attention right quick.

When it's just me and her in the car, it's fun to play her fennel's mixes, because she will just talk with me over the music until one catches her ear, and she asks, "what's this one? Who is singing this song?"

Anyway, until recently, she's mostly just asked questions about the lyrics of songs. But two recent conversations have made me curious about how much attention she pays to music.

Scene #1:
N, D, and I are driving in the car in Georgia over winter break. I am singing something, and David joins in. Natalie, from the backseat, says, "No, daddy, you stop singing. Just mommy should sing. When you sing it makes mommy's voice lower."

...well, that's true. I can sort of carry a tune all by myself, or if someone's singing the same part as me, but singing against someone else is hard and I do have a tendency to go flat. But... really? Enough that she NOTICED?

( scene 2 is longer )