Singing her ABBs

I've realized in the past few weeks that Adelaida is quickly growing from a baby into a little girl. I am amazed every day at how many things she can do by herself and how quickly she learns new things! One of her most fun new skills is singing the alphabet song -- or at least part of it. I first heard her sing it last week, completely out of the blue, and since them she has been singing it pretty frequently. She has at least two toys (and probably many more) that sing the alphabet song, so she hears it when she is playing in the kitchen and when she is playing with her house in the living room, and also at school (her teacher, Mrs. Diana, sings the alphabet song to the kids after they finish eating lunch every day). The fact that she heard it and started singing it herself is one more reminder that kids are sponges and soak up everything they hear!

Adelaida's version of the alphabet song is unmistakably the alphabet song, with the appropriate rhythm and notes, but is not quite the traditional alphabet: she sings "A B B D E E E E E"!

Adelaida hasn't quite figure out how to pronounce "s" sounds at the beginning of a word ("socks" sounds like "docks", although she pronounces the "s" sound at the end of "eyes" and "noise"), so the C sounds like a second B. And, she seems to like E so much that once she gets to E she becomes a broken record and repeats it several times rather than continuing to F!

Now that I've heard her start singing the alphabet song so many times, I've started singing it to her more so that she can add the rest of the letters. She gets so excited to hear me sing it to her, and it is so much fun for me to help her learn such an exciting new skill!