I’ve got a 4 month post coming because I think it is time to stop counting in weeks. But one last time. He’s 17 weeks and he is so big and so changed and so different and utterly adorable. In the rare moments when he does stop feeding, what he likes more than anything is to stare into my eyes and sing along while I since to him. And this is his absolute favourite. Yellow bird, taught to me by my mum, though I only know the first verse. Listen to my ‘Yellow Bird’ on Audioboo. Don’t mock. I’m terrified of hearing myself recorded.
He is gorgeous as the photos amply show, but the point of the post isn’t to gloat about him, or show off my dubious singing voice. It’s not even to remind me of the pleasure of baby gurgles or lullabying off a small person on your shoulder.
It’s to remind me that singing a snippet of a song to him meant that we learned about Haiti and steel drums and Loony Tunes cartoons and harmony sung by trios of men and hunted down whether it was a slave song or not and discussed freedom and syncopation and counted the beats in the bar and had an impromptu YouTube safety talk. All from sat on my bed with an iPad and a snippet of song from my childhood.
And I really must learn the second verse.
I think it’s such a great thing that you are home-educating your children. I think there is something so important about having this kind of flexibility, and to give them the freedom to explore their minds and thoughts.
so sweet 🙂
Beautiful photos and a lovely song – with the cutest little backing singer! And yes, this is why we home ed – thank you for reminding me. I’m not having the best day.
That brought back memories – but I also only remembered the first verse.
Goodness, Merry, why on earth would we mock your singing voice, it’s utterly lovely!
Oh Merry, this is such a lovely post.
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My mum used to sing Yellow Bird to me too, but I only know the first two lines, never mind the first verse!
Spot on with the home ed aspect – whether one HEs or not, THAT is the sort of thing we should be doing to educate our children, and sometimes, the randomly triggered ones are the best threads of discussion and discovery!