Clap hands not tables
Tin kicks the wall to a steady beat from his crib, we knock back from our adjoining wall in our bathroom. He plays the piano on everything and drums on the computers so we are constantly moving him away from the table and laptop. He picks up his flashlight and plays it like a horn. The bars on his crib have become a bass. AND when he shakes his booty, we just laugh, he has got a great butt roll.
Suddenly our little toddler is becoming the great entertainer and there are less tantrums and more personality coming out. So we have been showing him a lot of old clips of musicians such as Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie and he is fascinated by these videos.
We are also using YouTube videos to help teach him other things. We are trying to change from liquid vitamins to Flintstones but Fred is an anachronism so we have to show Tin YouTube clips of the Flintstones so that when we sing Yabba Dabba Do to get him to eat a vitamin he knows what we are talking about. We put his Ms. Jessie’s Baby Butter Cream in his hair every morning and try to get him to endure the comb outs by watching I Love My Hair. However, here is one video we won’t show him – the last thing we need is our little music man learning how to drum with a fork and spoon on the dining table.