Singing machine!!!

Nicholas tends to find some area of interest and give it all of his focus for quite a long time before moving on to another main interest. We've had phases involving cars, dancing, Barney, and air conditioners, to name a few! Don't worry, though!! None of these phases has passed away completely!! Nicholas still makes time for these exciting activities, but they luckily don't last all day long anymore!!

Nicholas's current passion is singing!!! He has so many songs in his repertoire, it's crazy!! Many of the songs come from either his Barney DVDs (I Love You, The Growing Song, Mr. Golden Sun, and Friends are Special), his music class CD (Drip Drop, Allee Galloo, and the Hello Song), Storytime at the library (Read a Book and Skinnamarink), random songs from CDs (Bibbity Bobbity Boo, the Soapy song, Taylor Swift's Tim McGraw song, and other lovely songs), or just your typical nursery rhymes (Itsy Bitsy Spider, Row Your Boat, Old MacDonald, etc.) The craziest part is that he really knows and loves each song!! He misses words and phrases here and there, but for the most part he's spot on with the words. And he's almost always spot on with the correct melody and timing!!!

He even finally sang his ABC's!!! One day he's just chanting, "A, B, C, D, F...." and the next day, as I'm quickly gathering groceries, I hear the cute little boy in the grocery cart sing all the way to Z!!! (I'm sure that he still skipped at least the letter "E", but I was more focused on speed-shopping than critiquing his alphabet!!) Nicholas was about to start singing, "Now I know my ABC's..." when foolish Mommy got overexcited and interrupted with a big kiss and a singing compliment!! I was just too proud!! :o)

What a sweet boy!!! Did I mention that the terrible twos are starting as well!! (Something tells me that the fact that Nicholas is a wee bit spoiled may have something to do with this "phase"!) Ha!! Buckle up...here it comes! :o)