I remember when I was a young girl, daydreaming about my vocal talents.  Imagining myself as a famous singer, performing in front of a crowd of millions, moving them with my performance to the point of tears.  My song - "Tomorrow" as featured in the musical "Annie".  If you're a woman my age, I know that you know what I'm talking about.  I can close my eyes right now and imagine every one of you standing in front of a mirror with your fancy-singer-face on, ripping the guts out of your bathroom mirror audience as you belted out the orphan-cry refrain about the sun coming out tomorrow.  Or maybe, if you were REALLY DEEP, your heart sang more about love being like a river that drowns the tender reed.

I'll give you a moment to flash back to your most fabulous self.

This week I had an epiphany.  "Tomorrow" has been replaced as the song of choice with "Aaaaa, aaaah" as sung by Ariel, featured in the favorite movie of all little girls - The Little Mermaid.  You know the song.  The one that she sings as her voice is being ripped out of her throat and floats on over to the evil Ursula.  If that doesn't ring a bell, maybe it would be more familiar to you if I described it as the song that every little girl knows.  The one that you can hear them sing when they are alone in their rooms, riding with you in the car, the one where they pretend to be singers about to receive their big break.

I caught Sophie singing it the other day and finally had my camera nearby.  She was just sitting at the counter, eating a nutritious snack when I heard the familiar refrain.  The actual song portion of this video is pretty short, but she's such a star I decided to include the whole thing anyway.


I really ought to introduce her to the movie Annie.  There's nothing like Tomorrow.

[technical note: I'm trying out a new video feature here and I don't know how it will work.  if it doesn't look good, we'll try it another way.]