Hokey pokey

Lately Otter is becoming more and more fluent in his singing and dancing. He still omits some words, but he has a beginning sense of rhythm and melody.

During the day at random times, and at night getting ready for bed, he often sings to himself: the ABC song, Ring Around the Rosie, and (my current favorite) the Hokey Pokey. When singing the Hokey Pokey, he likes to take a stuffed animal and make it act out the spinning around, just as with Ring Around the Rosie he makes the animal fall down.

It's hard not to smile when you have a toddler dancing in your living room with a stuffed blue-green-yellow cow clutched to him singing "hokey pokey... turn self around... all about!"