Favorite songs
Like most kids, Zoe has always had been partial to certain songs. When she was small (even younger than Avery now) she always insisted that I sing 99 Bottles of Beer to her before bed, and her favorite song to listen to in the car was Ten Little Monkeys on our Baby Loves Jazz CD. (“Monkey!” she would call out every time I tried to change it.) And when she got a bit older, she went through a period where she only wanted to hear The Button Factory from her preschool musician Jonathan Bayer’s disc.
These days she’s got three favorites on the Imagination Movers CD that we listen to over and over and over again (in a very specific order). During our recent car trip to Santa Cruz, we must have listened to those songs fifty times, and I often catch myself humming one of the melodies – even when I’m not with the kids. And the songs have made an impression on Avery, too, who happily sings along to Nina’s Song (“N-I-N-A”) and Mother in You. I wonder which songs we’ll be listening to a year from now!
-M