Matthew has been very much a singer and dancer recently. He would break into a dance or stamp his feet or clap his hands when he hears a catchy tune. Sometimes he would sing to himself. Now this has become more apparent since we started swim class at Marsden.

Songs that we do at swim class includes Ring-a-ring-a-roses, Wheels on the bus, Twinkle twinkle little stars. Matthew would go through and act out the steps of some songs, like turning around on the last line of Roses, up and down in Wheels.

Last week, we started teaching him words of some songs - Twinkle twinkle little star and London Bridge.

Us: Twinkle twinkle little
M: star
Us: How I wonder what you
M: are
Us: Up above the world so
M: high
Us: Like a diamond in the
M: sky
Us: Twinkle twinkle little
M: star
Us: How I wonder what you
M: are

Us: London Bridge is falling
M: down
(Us: falling
M: down)x2
Us: London Bridge is falling
M: down
Us: My fair
M: lady

We taught him 2x and he learned fast. We were pleasantly surprised when he could do it without our help on the 3rd time.

I just read that YiXuan was doing something similar too - filling the blanks of a song. Our toddlers are learning really fast, aren't they?