Daniel Sings

When I put Daniel down to change his diaper on one recent afternoon, I noticed that he was saying "EE-YAI-YO! EE-YAI-YO!" I realized that this was not a made up word, but the refrain from "Old MacDonald Had a Farm," which appears frequently in an oft-rerunned episode of 'Caillou.' So we sang 'Old McDonald' together while we finished the diaper change, substituting the exotic animals on his nursery while, like the zebra and the monkey, in place of more well-known farm animals. He would often break into spontaneous "EE-YAI-YOs" after that, for several days.