For the past 15 minutes or so Craig and I have been listening to Isaac talk to himself through the baby monitor. We're trying to ease him back into the habit of falling asleep without anyone else in the room -- which he used to be able to do, for a period of about two weeks, about four months ago. If Isaac gets upset or calls for us, we go back into his room. But so far tonight he's been very cheerful. Not asleep, mind you, but cheerful.
He likes to quote from books, recite nursery rhymes, and sing songs as he falls asleep. We like to listen to him. Sometimes it can be a challenge to decipher what he's saying through the monitor, but this makes the evening's entertainment even more entertaining. It's like a revue of childhood favorites crossed with "Name that Tune."
We heard the nursery rhyme "Boys and Girls Come out to Play," and then the song "Waltzing Matilda." He sang a few verses of "Michael Finnegan," followed by the recitation of "Hot Cross Buns" and "Jack and Jill," with an immediate segue into a musical version of "Shoo Fly."
Then came a series of phrases we didn't recognize. It ended, "Bick, bick, bick, all around the town." Craig and I looked at each other in puzzlement. Was it a new verse from "The Wheels on the Bus"?
Then Isaac provided clarification. "Isaac making book up. Daddy doesn't know that one."
Well, that was true.
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And eventually he fell asleep!
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