singing and music

percy loves to sing. she sings while walking to day care or the park, she sings in the car, she sings in the bath, she sings along with paul at nite instead of dropping off to sleep.
her drum kit comes with a headphones and microphone. the headphones are fake and the microphone is crap but she gives it her best shot...
on the topic of singing along with paul at bed time she now insists on her favourite version of words too eg. singing "i've got you under my skin", paul substitutes 'you' with 'percy' at one point. if he slips back to 'you' she will say, "no, pappa, it's percy, sing it properly!"

some weeks back we bought her a cheapo cd player. she has about 6 cds of kid songs and kindermusik class songs, as well as the very favoured "lah-lah" cd that she really enjoys putting in the player by herself. perhaps it's not a good thing but she knows how to turn the player on at the wall and then operate it all by herself. it is a good activity if we want to get other things done and can't keep on eye on her. particularly so because her interest is more in putting the cd's in and out, and in and out of their covers, than actually listening to the music. i believe we've heard the first eight seconds of every first song tens of times, but no more! she's a funny one.