Wednesday

Tatiana has really started to sing lately.  Her musical toys just has the instrumentals, but the musical playing cards have voices.  When she knows the words she does pretty good at singing.  Her favorites are "Lollipop", I think it is from the 50's, the Handel one, and last night she was singing along to "Ring of Fire".  I was really amazed at what a good job she did.  I had to take it away from her to start toothbrush time.  If she knows the words to a song from one of her musical toys, she will sing along too.  If we sing the words, and she doesn't know them, she pays very close attention.  I felt a bit silly singing along to 'Swanee River' because except for those two words I don't know any of the song.

Lately, she has been requesting the "Babies" book first at bedtime book reading.  She really loves that book.  She loves to point out what the babies are doing.  She gets really happy.  I have to be very careful with the book because it was one given to me when I was 1 year old by DeeDee.  It has already been taped once.  After Babies, she wants Ferdinand.  Then it varies among "Mama Duck", "Piggy" and "Butterfly."  That is what she calls, "Little Quack plays Hide and Seek", "If you give a Pig a Party" and "the Lamb and the Butterfly".  The last book is always "Good Morning Farm".  She is so funny when she doesn't want to go to sleep, she doesn't want that book because she knows it is the last book.  But then I tell her if she doesn't want that book, then it is time for me to turn off the hall light.  She really says No to that.  Othertimes when she is really reading to go to sleep she will request "Farm" early.