It seemed like a good idea at the time
Question: What do the following artists have in common?
Answer: Each of them has a song on Amelia's favorite song collection.
Yes, mommy put together a small recording of Amelia's favorite songs on her mini iPod so that she could play the songs in the car. Thus far, mommy has found 13 songs to add to this collection including: In My Room by the Beach Boys; Bella Notte from Lady and the Tramp; Funkytown by Lips, Inc.; and Bark at the Moon by Ozzy Osbourne.
Putting together this compilation has been both a blessing and a curse. It's great to have the songs available because sometimes it's difficult to get Amelia into the car at all. When I tell her that she can listen to her favorite songs in the Big Red Car, she's eager to go anywhere. Diana loves the songs as well. She is beginning to coo along with the songs (very cute) and tries to count three strikes on her fingers when she hears Take Me Out to the Ball Game.
The flip side of all this (excuse the pun) is that Amelia ONLY wants to listen to these same 13 songs over and over again. (Iron Man is still her very favorite song and the one she requests most often.) Mommy is starting to get a little tired of listening to Funkytown. I'm having flashbacks to when the song first became a radio hit and drove me insane!
What's worse is that Amelia insists that mommy sing along with every song. If I'm not feeling the tunes that day or don't know all of the lyrics to Smoke on the Water (and I don't), it makes no difference to her. She doesn't seem to mind when mommy sings, "They burned down the gambling house, it died with an awful sound...something, something, something...smoke on the water..."
Amelia even gets irritated if I don't sing along with the guitar chords on Smoke on the Water. I have pointed out that there aren't any words to sing, but she wants to hear me, "dun dun dun...duh duh duh dun" anyway. And today when I was singing Iron Man for the 100th time Amelia pointed out to me, "You aren't Iron Man, mommy." I told her that I was just pretending to be Iron Man for fun. I guess you could call that fun.
I think what I really need are more songs. If any of you know of songs that Amelia likes to sing, please pass them on to me.
On a completely different topic, when I took the girls to the grocery store today Amelia was still in her gymnastics leotard and skirt. Someone asked her in the check out line if she was a ballerina. Without missing a beat Amelia replied, "No, I'm a princess." Everyone was amused.
Lisa
Answer: Each of them has a song on Amelia's favorite song collection.
Yes, mommy put together a small recording of Amelia's favorite songs on her mini iPod so that she could play the songs in the car. Thus far, mommy has found 13 songs to add to this collection including: In My Room by the Beach Boys; Bella Notte from Lady and the Tramp; Funkytown by Lips, Inc.; and Bark at the Moon by Ozzy Osbourne.
Putting together this compilation has been both a blessing and a curse. It's great to have the songs available because sometimes it's difficult to get Amelia into the car at all. When I tell her that she can listen to her favorite songs in the Big Red Car, she's eager to go anywhere. Diana loves the songs as well. She is beginning to coo along with the songs (very cute) and tries to count three strikes on her fingers when she hears Take Me Out to the Ball Game.
The flip side of all this (excuse the pun) is that Amelia ONLY wants to listen to these same 13 songs over and over again. (Iron Man is still her very favorite song and the one she requests most often.) Mommy is starting to get a little tired of listening to Funkytown. I'm having flashbacks to when the song first became a radio hit and drove me insane!
What's worse is that Amelia insists that mommy sing along with every song. If I'm not feeling the tunes that day or don't know all of the lyrics to Smoke on the Water (and I don't), it makes no difference to her. She doesn't seem to mind when mommy sings, "They burned down the gambling house, it died with an awful sound...something, something, something...smoke on the water..."
Amelia even gets irritated if I don't sing along with the guitar chords on Smoke on the Water. I have pointed out that there aren't any words to sing, but she wants to hear me, "dun dun dun...duh duh duh dun" anyway. And today when I was singing Iron Man for the 100th time Amelia pointed out to me, "You aren't Iron Man, mommy." I told her that I was just pretending to be Iron Man for fun. I guess you could call that fun.
I think what I really need are more songs. If any of you know of songs that Amelia likes to sing, please pass them on to me.
On a completely different topic, when I took the girls to the grocery store today Amelia was still in her gymnastics leotard and skirt. Someone asked her in the check out line if she was a ballerina. Without missing a beat Amelia replied, "No, I'm a princess." Everyone was amused.
Lisa
posted by Lisa, Mike, Amelia, and Diana at 10:55 PM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home