Our Song

No, not Mike's and my song (we actually don't have a song as a couple. There are a bunch of songs we like that speak to us, but when it comes down to it, there is no "Our Song" for us. Made it challenging for wedding dances and such.)

The song to which I'm referring today is the song we sing as a family.

There are a bunch of those.

The one that gets sung the most is the "Daddy" song. Mike made it up when he was trying to get Emily to say "Da-Da".

It goes something like this: Daddy, Daddy, duh-de-duh-de-duh-de Daddy, Daddy, Daddy. Repeat until your ears bleed or the small person gets bored and moves on to something else. This song is great (for us) because all of our names are 2 syllables, so the Daddy Song is also the Mommy Song, the Emily Song and the Lucy Song.

Ok, so Emily's name isn't 2 syllables, it's more, but you know what I mean.

When Emily was in the midst of her language explosion, we'd hear her in her room at night, singing the Daddy Song with the words "Emily's Computer". She didn't quite grasp the concept. Gave Mike and I a HUGE chuckle, though.

We have other songs we sing, but the Daddy song is the only one of our own invention. Other family favorites are I'm A Little Teapot, Pollywog In a Bog (BNL's Snacktime album is on continuous play in my van).

The Little Gym uses the London Bridges tune to get kids to pick up toys. Every once in a while, when I think of it, I steal that.

This post was written for Parent Bloggers Network as an entry for a contest sponsored by Bush's Beans. Help Bush's Beans come up with replacement words for the infamous "Beans, Beans, the musical fruit", which is, according to Bush's Beans, inaccurate. According to me? Still pretty darn funny.