Music to Baby's Ears

Some say that it would be good to listen to classical music when pregnant. Yes, the baby will be soothed by the tunes and will probably end up liking classical music when older. However, baby won't necessarily become smarter. The Mozart Effect has been debunked so I'm glad I didn't waste my time listening to music I didn't fancy. Actually, I hardly listened to music at all. But, I danced a lot and went to the club from time to time (but stayed away from alcohol and smoke of course).

Now that baby is growing older, she is becoming more and more interested in music. The only music she listened to in the beginning was the music from her Fisherprice Rainforest mobile and probably her Baby Einstein and Fisher Price DVDs (she loved the jingles of the ads as well). But as soon as she's been watching the Boogie Beebies programs, she's been dancing more and more. In case you are not familiar with the show, the hosts teach the kids some dance moves and my daughter just loves it! I find it funny that when she dances, she raises her hands like I do. I guess she got that from me. She likes singing too, sometimes she hums to music. Now, that I don't know where she got that from because my voice is just terrible (think Cameron Diaz in My Best Friend's Wedding).

I think I should enroll her in Kindermusik soon, especially since I am at work and she only has her nanny to play with now. I heard some good reviews about this program and I am becoming more and more convinced to try it. In the meantime, I plan to get her some more musical toys to play with.

Okay, this music bag by Chicco is not exactly a musical toy but isn't it cute? It even has a case for an ipod. My 4 year old niece already has her own ipod with all the Hannah Montana tunes, can you believe?


This Fisherprice piano is also cute, it even matches her current crib mobile.


When baby was in Manila, she watched some Barney DVDs with her cousin and they told me she just loved it. Nothing close to Guitar Hero but I think she can start with this one.


I just find this birdhouse xylophone by Lamaze so cute. I hope she doesn't slap the bird instead of the notes...


My daughter actually has this Leap Frog maracas already but I recommend that other moms get it. It is also bilingual (hers is English and French and there's also an English-Spanish version) like all Leap Frog products.


Perhaps our kids can form a band after? We can be the back-up dancers.