Vi is really starting to sing along - and request specific songs. Her favorite song is "Happy Birthday to You." This is largely due to the fact that I have saved every single voicmeail from my sister's kids singing their silly versions of it to me and Dan...for YEARS. Vi will pull a chair up to the counter in the kitchen and try to play the answering maching (Yes, we still have one of those MACHINES to catch our missed calls) and ask, "Happy? Happy?" And we'll listen to Ben and Lolly singing "you look like a monkey" and other variations on the jungle theme. It's great!
When we're driving in the car, we'll ask Vi if she wants to sing a song. She usually will say "uh-huh," which, as I have reported earlier, has sadly replaced her very sweet and unique "yesssh."
We'll go through the list of songs, and usually end up with Happy Birthday or Old MacDonald. Half-way through each, we'll ask Vi to let us know the subject of the current verse. It's always Papou's birthday, and there's always another horse on the farm.
When she doesn't want those two songs, we go through this list:
- Ants go marching
- Monkeys on the bed
- Twinkle, twinkle
- ABCs
- I see the moon
- Inagaddadavida by The Iron Butterfly.
If we get all the way to #6, she giggles and agrees. Not that I know the real words to that one, but Mumzy apparently has it on her iPod, which Vi discovered last night. She rocked right out.
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