Trial @ Magic Fiddler

It has almost been more than a week ever since the irksome haze "confined" my baby boy at home. His eczema returned to attack him again and almost every hour I've to butter him up with loads of creams and moisturizers. After the haze and his skin got better, I got daddy to drop us at City Square on his way to work. I've just called up Magic Fiddler and there was a trial class available for us to attend today.

The class began with the "Hello song", rolling of balls to each other, singing with props like egg shakers, silk cloth, wooden sticks etc, jamming with the different musical instruments, parachute fun and lastly practicing on the real keyboard.

Baby Reagan understood when I asked him to greet his new friends in class. He would wave his arms then smile shyly at them. His favorite activity now is chasing after the rolling balls. That's what he did most of the time at home. Therefore, he enjoyed the segment when everyone sat in a circle and rolled the balls to one another. He likes the singing session as well, although he didn't really participate in doing the actions together. He only sat on the mat with his eyes fixated on the teacher, while she sang away. Each time the teacher brought out a new box with the props, Reagan immediately crawled speedily to grab hold of the first item he can reach for inside the box, and started shaking it with all his strength. He was so busy exploring the musical instruments that I knew that he wouldn't even notice if I left the room.

We put all the kids in the center of the parachute as we waved it up and down, singing to a song. Everyone escaped out of it, except for baby Reagan who was crawling around in the parachute, giggling in excitement. Other parents played peek-a-boo with him while he was on the parachute and that thrilled him even further. I believe he loves the parachute activity most!

 Lastly, all the kids were led to another room where they get to be seated in front of their own keyboard to practice the notes they learned earlier, "c" and "d". It's rather amusing trying to teach your 1 year old the right key to press on the giant keyboard. They find it more interesting to bang on the keyboard and creating a racket instead. But it gets me pretty contented each time baby Reagan tried to press the key, and immediately I started visualizing him in a striking tuxedo on a stage, charming the audience with an awesome music piece from Mozart. Yes, I was absolutely mesmerized by my baby boy.

 I think baby Reagan has started to show interest in music, or I shall rather say he enjoys creating noises...that are music to his ears.