I play this game a lot lately. Preston LOVES to sing, and learns a lot of new songs at daycare. I teach him some, too, but I know he comes home with new songs in his mind every day. Last night when I was helping him put his PJs on he started singing one I’d never heard from him before. It sounded something like this “sib-uh-duh-dink-duh-dink-a-dink-a-dink-a-dooooooooo – I love you!” And he was waving his arms around a lot and giggling. It probably took me three verses to figure it out, but it’s a CLASSIC!
“Skin-a-ma-rinky-dinky-dink
Skin-a-ma-rinky-DOO
I love you”
I love that he can sing it close enough to the original that I can figure out what song it is, AND that I actually know the song.
We sang a few more verses together with all the arm motions, he even knew the bridge:
I love you in the morning
And in the afternoon
I love you in the evening
And underneath the moon
The kid has his parent’s musical nature.
This whole post reminds me of the first time he ever came home from daycare with a song that he knew: "Ring around the Rosie"
It was probably about a year ago, and it was the cutest thing EVER. This tiny little 15 month old would break into an unintelligible song with random words like "rosie" thrown in. He walked around in a circle with his right arm out in front of him (kind of like the sprinkler dance move if you are familiar with that), and his FAVORITE part was falling down! He always did it way too early.