Singing

Singing bonds a family to each other. Singing makes memories. Singing helps us overcome difficulties. Singing makes us happy.

Happy children SING! =)
(http://www.housewifeintown.com/2011/10/sing-together-day-four.html)

I LOVE THIS! A friend pinned on Pinterest a blog that had a series going on called "31 days to happy children". I ran across this post and absolutely adored it. It reminded me of Kayden's new found love. Singing. You can ask him to sing and he will open his mouth up wide and say "ahhhhhhh". He LOVES when we sing to him. Of course, he has since day one. We sing ALL.THE.TIME. He is always around Nick singing, of course, but I also sing a lot to him. I have always sung to him while I rocked him but recently we have been singing a lot of the children songs with hand motions to them. I'm telling you, he LOVES them.

When we sing "5 Little Monkey's Jumping on the Bed" He will jump up and down, put his hands on his head, "call the doctor" with his hand to his ear, and shake his finger "no,no,no". This was one that I have always sung to him in the morning because when I stayed home with him (and now on the weekends) I always brought him back to our bed for a little bit and this song would always pop into my head.

We sing "Itsy, Bitsy, Spider" and he puts his little fingers together when the spider is going up the spout, puts his hands above his head for the rain and sun... this is one of his favorites right now.

He has been doing "Patty Cake" for quite a while now with his favorite motion being "roll em up". He rolls EVERYTHING up! This was one of the first hand motions put to song that he learned besides the pointing of the finger in "5 little monkeys".

We also sing "Deep and Wide", which he has recently been spreading his arms out wide when we ask him where things are (cutest thing ever!) so he has started doing that when we sing Deep and Wide too.

Since he seems to pick things up quickly through song, I have also started singing the ABC song. He loves it, but I wish it had hand motions to it. Oh well, at least we are starting to expose him to the ABC's. I really want to find a song to the numbers also.

I hope his love for music stays with him the rest of his life. He absolutely loves music, and I love that! :)