Dance, Songs and Music

Ishaan really loves to dance, we have noticed it several times, he would try to dance on few of his familiar songs or will just watch TV and try to copy. We tried teaching him few steps on "Dance pe Chance" last winters and he really picked up fast, later he learned steps on "Sheela" and "Dum Maro Dum" just by watching them on TV. I never see him sitting on the couch if there is a loud music with dance playing on the TV, he will step down and will start moving his feet. He will dress up wear his pants and put on a belt, just to dance on "Dabang Dabang" song. Most important part of his dance as of now is jumping and he will try to jump with the beats and will move his hands and sometimes feet.

More than dance Ishaan likes singing, he has been listening to songs in car since last few years and we don't change our CDs in car very frequently, so he has mugged up all the songs. He would identify a song withing few seconds of listening to its music. His first song that he really liked and demanded to play again and again was "Jai Ho", he will wait for the lyrics and will shout "Jai Ho" along with the song. He hardly understands much of Hindi but remembers all new songs, because he remembers the music, sometimes I will whistle a song and he will identify it.

His favorite songs are:
Jai Ho, Tere Mast mast do naine, Aahun Aahun, Sheela, Dum maro Dum, Bum Bum Bole, Jee Karda, All is well etc. He would even sing and remember a lot of advertizes on TV. He will call everyone when he sees his favorite advertize and will ask us "Wait, now watch this ..." as if he was the director of that advertize :-). He usually remembers the catchy songs very easily and prefers the one with English words like recently I was singing "My name is Anthony Gonzalves" and he liked it, he asked me to repeat it few times and now knows the song, he waits till the end to say "Excuse me please .." One of my favorite songs that we sing is "Tu mera dil, Tu meri Jaan" and he fills in between "Oh I love you Daddy".

We also made couple of our own songs which he really loves to sing and proudly says Daddy and I made this song like "I am gone to say, I am gone to say, I love you" and "If you want ice-cream, you got to ask your Mamma, if Mamma says, u can eat then u can eat but then you got to ask your daddy" that way we would cover all our family members and friends before the song ends.
One of the pending things that we need to do is teach him steps on song "Zubby Zubby", he has promised his Chachu that he is going to dance on this song with mamma at Chachu's marriage, so we need to work on that.