Lullaby and Goodnight
Friday, January 25, 2008
DG and I each have our different techniques to get Hadley to go to sleep. During December, we sang Christmas carols to her. White Christmas and Let it Snow were the two main ones that DG sang to her in utero. When my mother was here, she pulled out the church hymns, singing to her in a soothing alto. Usually, two hymns was all it took. Beginning in January, when I banned Christmas songs from the house until next Thanksgiving, we struggled to find songs that we knew all the words.
On one particularly tough evening at 3am, I found myself singing an old College Favorite, Sir Mix A Lot's "Baby's Got Back". Within 10 minutes, I was able to say "Baby's Got Sleep". When she starts screaming in the car, DG and I break into "Hard Day's Night" by the Beatles. On other occasions I've pulled out a few hits from Wham! and show tunes from Oklahoma. Just yesterday, I sang half of Abbey Road to her. Why these songs? Who knows?!?!
So I wasn't suprised when one night I found DG singing to her in a soft whisper, Madonna's "Like a Virgin". It's his signature song that he now uses to get her to sleep. Well that and "Lucky Star". Sometimes we duet. Well I'm just the back up singer really.
By AllBeehive Friday, January 25, 2008
5 Comments:
but...do you do the baby's got back dance too?
:)
Do you get VH1 Classic? I watched that in the mornings when I was home with Nathan, and danced and sang along to a lot of old favorites. I'd put my feet up, with Nathan stretched out on my legs and wiggle his feet and hands around to the music.
I also turned the Book Time for Bed into a lullaby. Although there was often a note of desperation in my voice as I repeated "Go to Sleep, Go to Sleep" over and over and over again.
The Baby's Got Back dance only comes out during active time. The sleepy version is more of a lullaby.
VH1 plays videos? I might get it, usually only watch the Today show in the mornings.
No, VH1 plays as videos as much as MTV does. It's the VH1
Classic channel on digital cable that still plays videos from the 70's, 80's & 90's.
When Ethan was teeny tiny, Charlie sang Frank Sintatra songs almost exclusively to him, while I pulled the old Simon and Garfunkel tunes out for him. Today, at ten, his two favorite bands are Green Day and Bowling for Soup.
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