Sorry for the title...I'll explain, I promise.
Brian and I have been singing to Liam since his birth, and very early in his life certain songs seemed to calm him more than others. The monotone and repetition of songs like "Old MacDonald" and the alphabet song were particularly soothing, especially when riding in the carseat. So Liam heard these songs very, very often. And we've realized as he has gotten older that he was listening and absorbing a lot of what we were singing to him. One of his first words was "E-I-E-I-O," in fact. We'd stopped using that song as a calming technique as he got older and needed less soothing, but suddenly probably months after hearing the song the last time, he started singing it back to us. We were stunned and thrilled that he remembered.
After that, it is not entirely surprising that Liam has begun singing the alphabet to us. He heard it many times when he was very small, and even has a Leapfrog toy that sings his alphabet to him as well. So several times in the last few days I have heard him going about the house singing, "ABCD.....e..c...d.... ." He's got the first part down, and the tune is pretty close, but after that he jumbles a little. Well, yesterday afternoon he added a bit more.
"ABCD..e..c...d...*pause*......elmo peeeee..."
Perhaps I should suggest that as the next "must-have toy" this year....Go Potty Elmo?
The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order; the continuous thread of revelation. - Eudora Welty
2 comments:
Oh, they already have Go potty Elmo!!!! We had it... it was... greaaaat. ha ha!
So, I am on a road trip with my parents right now and my mom was telling me this story. It is so funny to me that she knows more about my friends then I do! I hadn't read any blogs in the last 48 hours, and she had... so she was telling me all about Liam and Elmo pees.
Isn't the internet great?!
Keep singing!
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