abc with me

For a few weeks now, Sawyer has been singing his abcs.

One of the funny things about daycare is the things they learn that you didn't teach them! I think we have occasionally sung the song, and he'll fill in a letter here and there but if you had asked me, I would have guessed it would be several more months before he picked up on the whole thing. But the older kids (all two of them!) do more singing and apparently he loves that song and Teresa often sings it during diaper changes.

His rendition from a few weeks ago (October 8, 2007) will be posted separately.

Of course, the postscript to this video is that when I picked him up from daycare the next week, I mentioned that he had sung it, and found out he had been singing it for a while -- mostly because of a new toy - a school bus with lights and buttons for each letter (he LOVES all buses). Apparently, he played with it a lot and couldn't help but learn the song when it was repeated so frequently.

I had a very mixed reaction to the whole thing, ranging from "wow, he knows his abcs!" to "oh, he learned it from a plastic bus??" to "do you think we need to worry about autism if he knows his abcs already?" to "boy, it's nice to be able to get him to break into song when he's complaining and put a smile back on his face!". Maybe those are the four stages of parenthood - it's probably just an inkling of what's to come.