Church CDs

These last 6 weeks Jairus has been obsessed with one of the “church CDs” (Kids Hymns) in the car. We listen to it every time we go somewhere. Anytime I have tried to move on to one of the other “church CDs” Jairus adamantly resists. The good thing about this obsession is that he is at least learning some classic hymns.

One night this last month Jairus was tired, but of course, he didn’t want to go to sleep. He had been banished to his room regardless. To keep from going to sleep he sang “Shall we gather at the river…the beautiful, the beautiful river” at the TOP of his lungs. Since he couldn’t remember any more of the song, he just sang that same part over and over for about 5 minutes. Eventually he gave up and, you guessed it, fell asleep! It was very funny. We just couldn’t bring ourselves to silent a kid singing a hymn! And just this last Tuesday night he was singing “Who built the ark? Noah, Noah” as his sleep avoidance song.

His teacher recently shared with me that one day at lunch some of girls were singing a normal kids song – something like old MacDonald. After watching them awhile Jairus said “no, no, no. Sing church songs.” He then proceeded to sing part of Onward Christian Solider. That was the song he also busted out for Ms Luanne right in the middle of watching Little Einstein’s. I am always impressed when he can sing one song while listening to another.

Hopefully this music interest will continue. It looks like he has his daddy’s musical gift.