Hey Diddle Diddle

Absolute cuteness.

The range of songs and rhymes this child has memorized is completely amazing.

Just off the top of my head, she knows the Alphabet Song, She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain, Hey Diddle Diddle, Baa Baa Black Sheep, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, I've Been Working on the Railroad, Happy Birthday, Jingle Bells, Rock-A-Bye Baby, Hickory Dickory Dock, To Market -To Market, Pat-a-Cake, Polly Put the Kettle On, Humpty Dumpty, Head Shoulders Knees and Toes, Little Boy Blue, Jack and Jill, Mary Had a Little Lamb, Old McDonald, I'm a Little Teapot, Three Little Kittens, The Wheels on the Bus, Itsy Bitsy Spider, If You're Happy and You Know It, Here We Go Round the Muberry Bush, Pop Goes the Weasel...

And the she can actually carry a tune. It's cute.

I know this is the result of singing to Freyja since she was born...and reading to her daily. Now that she knows so many of the songs that she just listened to for so long, we sing together. Sometimes Freyja busts out her little play piano, shakers, or horn.

Singing, in turn, helps her to learn language, and along with experimenting with instruments, it develops her sense of rhythm.

The newest song we sing together is My Favorite Things...the Rodgers and Hammerstein song from The Sound of Music. I picked up a beautifully illustrated paperback with the lyrics scattered throughout the pages and the sheet music in the back at a thrift store for 25 cents, and its been worth every penny. She doesn't know all the words yet, but I hear her singing little parts here and there while she's playing or dancing around...