Dancing

Since we have a toddler in the house we spend a lot of time each day reading and singing songs.

Parker has learned to do the actions along with a lot of the action songs and I LOVE it- it is seriously too cute. One of my favorites is when he does all the actions to 'If You're Happy and You Know It', but he'll also join in on popcorn popping, the wise man and foolish man, the wheels on the bus, and many others.


Parker has some favorite songs and even requests them sometimes, he'll pop his hands out and say BEE for "Jesus wants me for a sunbeam".

Or he'll say "a man" and bend over onto the ground to sing "Once there was a snowman", the funny thing is he has several books that have a snowman in them and whenever he sees a picture of a snowman he'll bend down to the ground and say a man because he just associates them with the song.

He'll grab his toes and say "Weee wee", which if course means he wants "This little piggy", and will often request this when he sees pictures of pigs.

He'll lay on the ground and say "down" which means he wants to sing ring around the rosie, you know... all fall DOWN, so he calls it down.

In addition to participating in the songs that we sing together, Parker also loves to dance to music, And he has all kinds of moves; he'll turn his head back and forth like he is saying no, he'll bob up and down, he'll stomp around in a circle (that move is usually accompanied by him saying WEEE WEEEE WEEEE while he does it), if it's a slow song he'll sway side to side- and his newest move is repeatedly stomping one foot really hard.

He'll dance to about anything, and while Parker and I spend most of our time listening to children's music (meaning mostly Rhinoceros Tap by Sandra Boynton, the best kids album ever by the worlds best children's author!) or classical music, his favorite music seems to be Classic Rock. And you won't believe it- his favorite song is Back in Black by ACDC-- weird right?

He's so cute, we love singing and playing with this boy all day long.