My singing star

Little Miss Fiona has been singing to a lot of tunes.

The very first songs she ’sang’ was Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. I quoted ’sang’ because she only sang the last word of each sentence, while I sang the rest of the words. She’s been doing that since last Winter, I think it was around Christmas or prior?!

Now at 22 months old, she sings many songs. She can sing most of the letters in the alphabet song, often times breaking out “now I know my ABC, nest [sic] time won’t you sing with me”? She also knows words to Marry Had a Little Lamb, Row Row Row a Boat, I Love You, Round and Round the Garden (THE coolest finger play song!), Itsy Bitsy Spider, etc etc - I can’t remember all of them at the moment - but she’ll sing and hop / jump around dancing for us. Of course I’m partial, but she is just DARLING when she does that. She’s a bit soft spoken / gentle / on the feminine side despite having a very rough big brother, so that just makes it extra Princessy.

I wrote the previous paragraphs few days ago. Today I realized she knows all the words to “Sing A Song of Six Pence”!!! I would start the sentences a few words at a time and she finishes them for me. She just wowed me away.. all the time. It’s amazing how fast this age group picks up things (is it that, or it’s just they are finally verbalizing everything they already knew for months and months??).

One of our routine stuff is I sing to her every day, most of the time nursery rhymes, and mixing in a few made-up songs as well. She lies down quietly in my arms and we rock and sing for a while before bedtime / nap time, apparently capturing all the words into her very busy brain.

I love this stage! She is still very obedient, not very many tantrums (all of which are easily thwarted) or meltdowns, no smarty pants talk-backs, and no negotiating techniques yet. Oh so sweet.