Song & Dance

Elias has always loved music. Poor kid, he landed in a household without much music: my only "sound system" is an old under-the-counter radio in the kitchen, if you don't count my laptop, and that's usually tuned to NPR. I am in the market now for a cheap iPod to use with the speaker dock I bought, to try to satisfy some of his musical longings. I have hopes of him being a great cello player, actually. (No, Pappa, not drums--cello.) Plus, each night I still sing what songs I know to him just before bed. Despite his love of listening to music, he has only recently begun to sing, himself. Quite often now he'll request songs by name, or just start singing them, breaking off with "Mommy--sing? Mommy sing?" if I don't catch on right away. Dancing, however, was a participatory thing for him from the start. A favorite now is "Hokey Pokey." He'll bait people to start it with him by squaring up in front of them then taking 1/2 a giant step while saying "foot--out? One foot out?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWeoYfSDgrs