The Sound of Peyton...

  Not the Sound of Music, my all time favorite movie, but The Sound of Peyton.  And one of my favorite songs from The Sound of Music is "Maria". 

"How do you solve a problem like Maria?  How do you catch a cloud and pin it down?  How do you find a word that means Maria?
A flibbertajibbit?  A will of a whisp?  A clown?
Many a thing you know you'd like tell her.  Many a thing she ought to understand.
But how do you make her stay?  And listen to all you say?  How do you keep a wave upon the sand?
Oh how do you solve a problem like Maria?  How do you hold a moon beam in your hand?
When I'm with her I'm confused, out of focus and bemused, and I never know exactly where I am.
Unpredictable as weather, she's as flighty as a feather.
She's a darling, she's a demon, she's a lamb.
She'd out pester any pest, drive a hornet from its nest, she can throw a twirling dervish out of whirl.
She is gentle, she is wild, she's a riddle, she's a child, she's a headache, she's an angel, she's a girl!!
How do you solve a problem like Maria?  How do you catch a cloud and pin it down? How do you find a word that means Maria?"

If you substitute "Peyton" for Maria, this pretty much sums up any time you spend in her company.  Like Maria, Peyton loves to sing.  Probably more than she loves to dance.  She sings all the time. 

All. The. Time. 

Be it a with a song currently playing on the radio, the iPod player, a TV music channel, or something she made up as she randomly pinballs her way through the store...The girl is singing.  And she gets into her songs too.  If we are in the car, you can bet that her "hip-hops", you may call them flip-flops, are off, her feet are on the shoulder of the seat in front of her, sunglasses are on, and she's waving her hands in the air, she's moving her hips & rocking back and forth to some song on the radio.  "Mom, turn this up" is often heard in the truck as we go out and about town doing our thing.

While Gaga, Ke$ha, and anything GLEE are all time fan favorites, the current #1 tune in the Cakes mobile is "All I Do Is Win" with Ludacris & Snoop Dogg.  And when the song says:

"And everytime I step up in the building
Everybody hands go up
And they stay there
And they say there yeah
And they stay there
Up down, up down
'Cause all I do is win win win
And if you goin' in put your hands in the air.. "

You can bet there are hands waving in the air in the backseat.  Those hands even go up, mid-song, once she hears the lyrics in a 1/2 sleep 1/2 awake stage of an hour+ car ride. 

Doug and I thought she was asleep on the way to Sleepy Hollow on Saturday until this song came on the radio.  And all of a sudden she was back in the game!  Her head picked up, she threw her hands in the air and was singing along once again.  If I could drive and shoot video on my phone at the same time, I would have done it then, and many other times before.  But I am pretty sure that shooting video while driving is not exactly safe.  One of these days though, I'll get her while Doug is driving.

And what is it that I currently hear coming from the front room?  "Dora, Dora, Dora the explorer!"  And a new day, with a new song, has begun.

Enjoy your Monday.  Peyton seems to be!