Soldiers March!

En's latest obsession is marching. Yes, it does seem he is in a bit of a hurry to go do his National Service even though he is barely even two years old! We have this nursery rhyme VCD from the Wheels on the Bus series. Its pretty good and I highly recommend it as En En learnt most of his nursery rhymes from this series of VCDs.

The nursery rhymes are weaved into a story in an innovative manner. For example, in the "Humpty Dumpty" story, Humpty Dumpty fell off the wall and the Duke and his soldiers were requested to assist in getting him up the wall again (they failed, in case you are interested to know). So, there is this soldier song and the soldiers are marching along the road, on their way to rescue Humpty Dumpty. The other nursery ryhme "The Grand Old Duke of York" also has soldiers marching all over the place and trouble arises when the Duke falls asleep. The soldiers are unable to stop marching any nearly march into the sea until the Duke awoke in time to give the command for the soldiers to do an "about turn!".

Whenever these two episodes are played, En En will hop off the sofa and start marching on the spot, marching around the living room area and marching all over the dining room. He can now march with two hands swinging and is pretty decent in lifting his knees high enough for each march! It is however an "obsession" since he almost demands to watch "soldiers march" every single day! Not only that, he would want to hear the soldiers marching song before he takes his afternoon nap and before his bedtime every day. Can you imagine, papa and mama had to learn the lyrics of the soldiers marching song so that we could sing it to En every day!

Its fascinating what toddlers get excited about. I must mention that his other food love now is "mushrooms". Whenever he is queried about what he is eating, he would solemnly nod his head and say "mushrooms" even when there is no mushroom in his food! I think he wishes there was mushroom in every meal! Today, he even asked his aunty or "xiao gu" to "please find mushrooms" for him in his food! (yes, there were mushrooms today in his dinner!)