Music: Cute Julia anecdotes

Last night Jeff and I were talking about all the cute and amazing things Julia's been doing lately, and wishing we were writing some of them down somewhere so that we wouldn't forget. Hence this entry about music.

Julia loves music, and Jeff and I each have CDs in our car that we play all the time. She loves Baby Beluga and will start yelling "Baby Beluga!" practically from the moment she sees the car. So we start at track #7. (Who knows what's on track #6, we never get back around to it!) When the song ends, she knows what the next song is before it starts, and yells out the name of the song (or her name for it, at least.) She is always surprising me by knowing what the next song is, when I have no idea. She really pays attention! She also makes a lot of associations that surprise us. When a song about lions came on in Jeff's car, she said "Roar" and then said "zoo". When "Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes" came on in my car the other day, she yelled out "Gym class!" where we sing that song every week. She is so smart! She has also taken to yelling out "louder!" when one of her favorites comes on. (She doesn't seem to know "softer" yet. Loud is so much more fun.)

At night during the bedtime routine, she loves music too and will often ask us to sing "Wheels on the Bus" by saying "round and round" and moving her arms in circles. When we put her in her crib at night, she's lately taken to saying "Ei-ei-o? Ei-ei-o?", a request for Old MacDonald. We think this is a stalling tactic to see if she can delay our departure, and it nearly always works. : )