jack's gym

jack is relaxing upstairs with his leap frog learning gym that my cousin tiffany bought him. i thought it was a ridiculous and frivolous thing at first. then, i realized "where do you put the baby when you want to get things done?". in his bassinet? no, he hates that. on the floor on a blankie? boring. hold him all day long? no way!!! swing? doesn't always work, today he's not digging it. dan says to me, "doesn't he have one of those things...?" etc. and i remembered. aha! jack is happy and might be developing his little brain. that is what one hopes.
oh! the learning gym has music and language from around the world. it's like i'm priming him for epcot!:) i can't wait for the day he says "hello" in japanese. dan will flip.
"i'm american. i eat american food." -- dan s.
i videotaped jack smiling and "a goo"-ing at the machine. i think he really likes the woman's voice that sings out of it. jack loves it when we sing. he especially likes it when i sing "i'll fly away" or "sweet little Jesus boy". although, i sing just about everyting to him. lots of folk songs. i also sing to him in other languages: spanish, hebrew, cree indian, french... probably others i can't think of. one hopes they are expanding a child's mind that way, too.:)
dan sings mostly "you are my sunshine". it's sweet. did i mention that the other day he asked me the words to the "old dan tucker" song to sing to jack?:)
"old dan tucker was a mean old man. washed his face in a frying pan, combed his hair with a wagon wheel and died with a toothache in his heel... get out the way for old dan tucker. he's too late to eat his supper. supper's over and dinner's cookin'. old dan tucker just stands there lookin'."
was it just us... or did you learn a lot of dippy 70's folk tunes in your elementary school music class? and no, my teacher wasn't a hippy. i'd say he's a golf-crazed yuppie.