Lightbulb moments

are so great to witness. 

Hannah and Naomi are both in choir, and they both are taking piano lessons.  One of the things that the girls learn in Naomi’s age group in choir is a hand signal set for the notes – Do Re Mi, etc., each have different hand signals, and they move up and down, depending on whether the note is going higher or lower.  Hannah knows the hand signals, too, since she learned them when she was in the younger choir.

Tonight at dinner, Naomi was regaling us with a song she’d learned at choir – a short, amusing, Halloween song.  Hannah was watching her do the hand signals and suddenly said, “Wait, Naomi!  I think I can play that on the piano!  Come here!”  Usually I discourage jumping up from the dinner table and running into the other room, but Hannah asked if she could have just a minute at the keyboard. 

Sure enough, she had Naomi do the song with the hand signals and she played it.  Then Naomi played it.  Then they came back to the table, both quite happy with their accomplishment. 

And it really was an accomplishment, since Hannah made the leap from Do Re Mi to C D E, something that I’m not sure she’d had explained to her yet. 

I just love the lightbulb moments.