A Musical Kid!

Jonathan is 1.5 years old and already showing a clear tendency to music. What started as a pure enjoyment of mommy's reaction to music has developed into an independent interest as well as interactive enjoyment.

When he was about 10 month old I bought him a boom box toy, which he loves until this day! (he loves it so much that I had to replace it after it got a bit bumped around too much and the music stopped...) At first he loved to press its music making button and then look up to watch mommy smiling and clapping hands to rhythm.
The next step was singing along with some of the tunes! Not only does he get the tune almost correctly, he imitates the way I sing certain tines and he shows a clear understanding of rhythm. Then he started dancing to the music and clapping his hands himself, and after wards he started singing along with his DVD tapes (and also imitating some of the actions taking place in the tape – very cute to watch).

The most recent musical developments include playing his little xylophone while the music from his boom box plays. He hits the wooden keys (albeit randomly and not to rhythm) along with the music. He has also invented a song – 4 short “la”'s and a long La that is sung higher and longer and is accompanied by raising his arms and looking for mommy to join in!