Along with Nora’s talking really taking off, she’s also started singing songs. For a while now, she’s enjoyed filling in the last word of a line when we sing to her, but in the past week or two she’s started singing whole songs by herself, mainly ones from library story time (which she LOVES). I’ve been trying to record her two favorites for a few days now. The first one is ‘Down by the Station’ – she’s looking at the book version. Here are the words, so you can understand/follow along:

Down by the station, early in the morning
See the little pufferbellies all in a row.
See the engine driver pull his little lever
Puff puff toot toot, off we go!

And the second song she learned from storytime is ‘Gray Squirrel’. It goes:

Gray squirrel, gray squirrel, swish your bushy tail.
Gray squirrel, gray squirrel, swish your bushy tail.
Wrinkle up your little nose
Hold an acorn in your toes.

After we got home from library, I was wondering if she remembered the new song, so I was letting her finish the last word of each line, and when I said ‘Hold an acorn in your…’ Nora said, ‘Pocket!’ and cracked up. Jonah also thought it was hilarious, so now it’s her big joke song. She also likes changing the color of the squirrel, or singing, ‘Jonah, Jonah, swish your bushy tail.’ (Although it actually sounds like ‘Jonah, Jonah, fishy fishy tail.’ And my favorite part of this video has got to be Nora’s distraction with her toes while she sings the squirrel song at the end. She is too funny!