July 1, 2004 - Thursday
I've been singing to Jeremy at bedtime for a couple days in a row! It started by my singing Harry's old standby, "Great Big Rollin' Railroad," while we were looking at Jeremy's new train book, one of those bargain table-type collections of trains through the years and my country. He loves the book, but there's no real point of reading the text in it to a two-year-old. It's all about the many pictures and looking at the same ones night after night can be a bit tedious. So, on a whim I sang what Harry called the "Freight Train Song."

I've tried to sing to Jeremy at times, but it'd never taken off like it did with Harry and I have no idea whether that was because of me or Jeremy. Perhaps it's simply that with Harry I was doing it nightly and therefore got into a routine. With Jeremy I was, at the start, an ocassional fill in for mommy and, more recently, a regular, but still part-time goodnight story teller. (Lately, we've usually let the boys decide which of us they want to have read to them and amazingly it usually works out. I guess that's because the question usually goes to Jeremy who is out of the bathroom first and Harry doesn't typically complain).

So, I've been singing to Jeremy for a few nights and it's a wonderful and fun novelty, for both him and me. Since I've never really sung to him regularly, he's curious about it and likes to hear what are essentially new songs to him. He smiles and asks for more and it's a lot of fun again. But, it won't last. Jeremy usually likes the same stories for a week or two then moves on and that will certainly happen with the songs, too. But, that's OK. It's fun for now.


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