Speaking, Singing, or Chanting about Nursery Rhymes...

  Studying speech and language pathology I had heard again and again about the fact that babies love language, and that they really appreciate rhymes.  They love rhymes so, they would all say!  I believed them.  But not until I had my third child did I decide to take the experts up on the rhyming piece in a black and white  nursery rhyme sort of way.  So my daughter heard the frequent recital of this rhyme at diaper changes, bedtime, playtime, any old time: