A few months ago, I was home with both my kids and trying to decide what movie I should turn on for them.  My youngest, Everly had never seen Frozen. Haven went through a Frozen phase when she was a little younger.

It was one of those days where I wanted to get some of my ‘honey do list done’.  So I turned Frozen on for the girls. I thought, Everly might enjoy this because all little girls love Frozen.  I turned it on and got to work on some dishes and laundry, and etc.

Not soon after, Haven decided she wanted dad to sit and watch with her.  So I sat down next her and started playing on my phone, because I have already seen Frozen way to many times and I have most scenes memorized, because when Haven chooses a movie she will play it on repeat for a couple of months.  

Then I heard something, the movie started to be in surround sound.  Which was weird because we didn’t have speakers to the right of me, but I distinctly heard a sweet little voice singing next to me.  I looked over at Haven, my mostly non verbal child was singing every word of every song. She was reciting words I didn’t think she new existed.  

She wasn’t singing “let it go” over and over again.  She was singing all the other songs and reciting the dialog in between.  I had to record it because I couldn’t believe it. I was excitedly crying during Frozen.  

We watched Frozen the rest of the day on repeat and Haven continued to recite things.  I was so excited to hear all these words and they weren’t prompted by me. They just flowed right out of her.  I learned she knew a lot of words and a lot of songs. We started singing more nursery rhymes and she was dropping words I never thought I would hear her say.

I brought this up to her speech therapist at the time and she explained to me music uses a different part of the brain than other speech patterns.  I’ve since googled and this is still a debate among top search results:D. For Haven it works. She has a great memory and loves singing songs. She will say more with songs than regular speech. 

Haven teaches me something new everyday and I will continue to post this things in this blog.

Not long after this the trailer for Frozen 2 came out and little girls rejoiced, and parents groaned.  Correction, little girls and yours truly rejoiced, why, because I have FROZEN FEVER!