Amanda's Photography – Melbourne Newborn, baby, child & family photographer

Both Chloe (my 10 year old daughter) and I do singing lessons! I’ve always loved singing and because I sing alot when I teach at GymbaROO, I thought it was prudent to ‘improve my voice’! I’m an alto – in other words my voice is deep and I sing like a man. When I was a teenager I have memories of driving to nightclubs with 2 of my girlfriends, singing”Tell me More” from the Grease soundtrack. They sung the Livvy and girl parts – and yep, I sung John Travolta and the boys! So relate this back to my teaching….teaching babies and tots you sing in a high voice, young children like higher voices!  Eeeeekkkkk – not easy for me. And for those of you who have had a session with me, you’ll already know that I sing to the kids almost constantly! Singing is a wonderful tool to get their attention, I can guarantee that if a kid is picking their nose (like so many do), and you exclaim ‘darling stop picking  your nose’, they’ll just keep on picking away. But if you sing ‘put your hands on your knees on your knees’, you will get their instant attention through the song, and they will put their hands on their knees, this works almost EVERY time!

So back to the rehearsal bit,  Chloe adores her singing, it is her favourite activity, and she is lucky. She has really good pitch and her voice is getting stronger and sounding lovely. Her latest fave is ‘Don’t Rain on My Parade’ (she’s a big Glee fan).

In a week and a half, Naturally Music is having their annual concert. Chloe is in heaps of it, I’ve been a bit naughty and got out of most of it – because I’m taking photos hehee. Not too worried about singing, but the dance moves yikes…..I’m more like an uncoordinated elephant!

So here are a few photos of Chloe at the rehearsal we had on Thursday nite. And a couple of Natalie’s boy rehearsing too…enjoy Nat.