Happy Baby

We are music lovers in this house for sure and Gabe comes by his love for music honestly! We are teaching him some children's songs and he learns others from his favorite CD's and shows on TV. He knows the Wheels on the Bus, the Bear went over the Mountain, Ring Around the Rosy, and a few others. He is able to perform the hand motions that go along with the songs as we sing or when he hears a song he is familiar with. It's so funny to see him interact with the music he loves.

This was captured on a recent outing of ours to the local protrait studio for new pictures of us and the boys....It was nearing Gabe's naptime and so we were pulling out all the tricks to get smiles from him before we lost him to Dreamland, or Tantrumville (whichever came first). In between takes, he would cry or run away from the lady with the camera, but Daddy and I were pros at getting the best photo opps out of him when the time was right.

Here he is in full "ham" mode while we're off to the side singing one of his favorites, If you're Happy and you know it....You know what to do, you clap your hands right? Well, that's easy for Gabe....he's already learned to clap a long time ago. And he can stomp his feet, and raise his arms above his head on the part where you shout Hooray... so the latest thing he's added is this pointing on the line that says, "then your face will surely show it". What a mess!!

I'm HAPPY and I KNOW it...Are you?