21 months:
Arissa has been humming all sorts of nursery rhymes for a some time now. She can't sing the words yet but her relative pitch has been fairly accurate.
Just the other day, I caught her humming "Are you sleeping" and we don't have that tune on our audio CDs/Barney CDs. When I asked Mum, she said "Yer, mama selalu nyanyikan dia" (Yes, I sing it to her often). On another occasion, she was humming "Satu satu... aku sayang ibu", to my amazement, and Mum's the culprit yet again.
This is her singing a lullaby to her "beeebeee":
I really should send this girl to group music class... I just hope she likes it better than I did tinkling on the piano for 10 years and as hubby puts it "a total waste of your parents money"- heh. That's why I'm a firm believer in making sure you send your kids to activity classes that you KNOW he/she will enjoy, and not for the heck of it or because the neighbours/friends/cousins/colleagues are sending their offspring to one.
Long after the enjoyment of group lessons wore off, my parents forced me to continue with solo piano lessons for another 7 years. I had to worm my way out of Saturday classes at Yamaha and Kawai but how many excuses can a 10 year old come up with in a month? After a while, they realised that I only came down with some distinct virus on Saturday mornings, which went away by nightfall.
I was never destined to become a Bach or a Beethovan... they should've sent me to typing classes instead.
:D