Favorite Songs

As Beau's speech is developing, he is learning to sing songs and it is so cute.  He has always LOVED music, but he would just hum along or dance.  Now he actually mimics the words and sings along.

Right now he has three favorite songs and I wanted to make note of it so that I don't forget.

1) the ABC's: This is probably what I consider to be Beau's first song.  He has really mastered singing his ABCs and he sings them loudly and proudly.  He is really into letters right now and knows all of the uppercase and lowercase letter names and sounds.  He cannot produce /k/ and /g/  properly but you can still understand what he is singing. (says /ch/ or /t/ instead of /k/ and /d/ instead of /g/) (His speech teacher thinks she could get him to produce the sounds correctly, but she would need to use a tongue depressor or lollipop to show him proper tongue placement, and he is just not quite ready for that.)

2)  10,000 Reasons by Matt Redman: This song, based on Psalm 103, is really special to our family because it was part of my dad's memorial service.  We sing it a lot in our house, in our car, while we are playing, etc.  Beau knows almost every word and requests to sing it often.  His ultimate favorite is when Raleigh plays along on guitar.

3) Turkey Dinner: This is just a little Thanksgiving song that I always taught my kindergarteners every year.  It is a simple song with lyrics that repeat.  Beau has really connected this song to Thanksgiving and he asks to sing it whenever he hears us talking about Thanksgiving. (lyrics: Turkey dinner, turkey dinner, gather 'round, gather 'round, who will get the drumstick, yummy yummy yumstick, all sit down, all sit down.)