Music and Lyrics

Not exactly the kind the movie was about, but C is, of course, developing an ear for music and tunes. She's begun singing. Actually, this has been going on for some time, but I want to share about her progress before she progresses past the cute learning part. First, she sang notes with no particular syllabication. Then, she began picking up parts of songs. Instead of learning the beginning, then middle, then end, like most people, she started with her favorite portions. The first one I noticed it with was "Itsy Bitsy Spider." She started with "washed spider out" and then learned the rest of it. This song also, incidentally, helped her master the concept of "again." Yippee. She's gone on to "If you're happy and you know it..." She learned "know it" *clap hands* first. Her current favorite is "Ring around the Rosie." Her version: while spinning sings "rosies, rosies, ashes, ashes, down!" followed by plopping on the ground. The first part she got of that though was not the rosies, but the ashes! Most recently she's added the ABC song to her repetoire. She started with H, I, J; added O, P, R, S and now sings..."A, A, C, D, E, E, E, H, I, J, K, O, P, R, S, double Y, X, Z". It's getting there. I'll try to record it and figure out the whole posting a video clip thing sometime. It's awfully cute, but I think I'm a tad biased.