Lately, the kid has been all about the bedtime sing-a-long.
And I've been forced to realize that I know the lyrics to far too few songs.
We spent some serious time on the classics: the Alphabet Song, Old McDonald (according to my child, Cookie Monster lives on the farm), Twinkle Twinkle, Happy Birthday, Baa Baa Black Sheep and Itsy Bitsy Spider. And then I ran out of ideas.
My brain can seriously not recall the lyrics to any other kid's songs at will.
So I started singing the only other two songs that I can apparently remember in their entirety: "So Happy Together" (Who the fuck are The Turtles?! How do I even know this song?) and "Blister in the Sun" (Yup, a song about masturbation. She's taken to calling it the "Check Out Song". I win at parenting.)
I hate to say it, but I think you should go to the library and pick up some Raffi CDs. When my kids were little, 'Baby Beluga' was a BIG hit! Also, check out 'Free to be You and Me'. Totally from the 70's but the ideas are fun and still relevant! Hope your cleanse went well, and looking forward to the post on the first cocktai!
ReplyDeleteUg, Raffi. I know this makes me a total snob but I'm just not sure that I'm ready to have that tripe in my house yet. I'm sure that once she's in school she'll be singing the hell out of that stuff.
ReplyDeleteI think I just need to kick my brain in gear and try to remember some lyrics to songs other than ones about jerking-off. I'd gladly memorize Dan Zane's entire catalogue if I could. I just think that I'm suffering from some sort of post-secondary-induced long-term memory brain damage/atrophy. All those memorize-and-regurgitate courses should come with some sort of health warning.
We've got plans for wings and beer on Monday night. Stay tuned for a very excited post about that meal.