ABC's

Mariana has a toy piano that her Auntie Christine bought for her. Usually she just bangs away with an open palm. She can hit more keys and create more racket that way. The other night as she was getting loopy before bedtime she started playing individual notes for the first time. She was also singing about bubbles, her favorite new discovery. It's the kind of noise that usually just fades into the background but this time I heard her start to sing "Tiny Bubbles" by Don Ho. I've sung this to her before but only a few times. I sung the next line to her- "in the wine..." which she followed up with the next line "makes me happy...." Are you kidding me?! She already knows it?! A father/daughter duet of Tiny Bubbles?! Sweet! Tiny Bubbles is a special song to me. We play it at work at the end of a very long day or at the end of a big project- often at 2 or 3am as we're wrapping up. So when I hear it it means I get to go home. To hear Mariana singing it was pretty cool. I went over and sat down with her and she started playing notes. I sang them back to her and she would laugh when I got it right. She would whine when I got it wrong. Does this kid have perfect pitch? Whoa, I don't know but she's amazing.
She can also sing the entire ABC's song by herself. We practice on the way to swim lessons on Saturday mornings. Swimming is going ok. M has a tendency to get distracted easily by all the other flailing children but does seem to really enjoy herself. She's even learning the Hokey Pokey -especially the "turn yourself around" part.