brigid | Lullabye, and Good Night (Reply)

Niko has pretty much always loved music, but he’s gone from a passive consumer to a dancing consumer to a producer of music. That’s right, he’s started humming– both to amuse himself and also, apparently, to request that we sing specific songs. But sometimes he hums and we think he’s requesting a sing along and start singing, and he shakes his head and says “neh… neh! neh.” and gives us a sad little smile like we’re just the dumbest fucks who ever rolled off a turnip truck. And then he goes back to singing for himself.

His favorite songs to hum are “Twinkle Twinkle/Baa Baa Black Sheep/the Alphabet Song” (and he sometimes requests the latter by singing “ah beh seh deh ma ma ma!”), “London Bridge,” “Hush Little Baby,” and a song I made up and that nobody else sings for him, which touches my curdled little soul deeply.

He also applauds wildly and says “yay!” when people finish singing something. Dawwwww.