Ally's Music

I hear all these stories about parents whose kids are singing along with the ABC’s or Old MacDonald from a very young age. Allyson has never really done that. We listen to music – she LOVES the Little Einstein’s! I have a couple of little kid CD’s in the car and she always (always, always, always) requests the “Pop Song.” That’s code for Lollipop, Lollipop. But she doesn’t sing it. She dances around in her seat and yells at me “Mommy, dance!”

We go to her ballet class, which she loves. I sing to her every night before bed – songs at her request. It’s usually Farmer Goofy (the Disney version of Old MacDonald), Itsy Bitsy Spider or My Favorite Things. (Most of the time I have to sing all three.) But she has never belted out the tunes along with me.

Then we were sitting in the family room playing on the floor the other day and she starts dum-da-dumming. It took me a minute to make sense of it, but who would have known? The kid was singing (or dum-da-dumming) Eine Kleine Nachtkmusik. Not Baa Baa Black Sheep or Twinkle Twinkle – freakin’ Mozart! It had to have been one of her shows, we’ve been watching Little Einsteins DVDs on repeat lately. I think one of the kiddo CD’s in the car sings one of the songs to that melody too. Who knows where she picked it up? But I love it!

So…now I can’t get the darn song out of my head. I’ve been humming it all day long. I wonder what classical piece she’ll start humming next?

~Becky