Our lullaby routine lately.
Me: Why do they think up...
MM: Stories that link my name with yours?
Me: Why do the neighbors...
MM: Gossip all day behind their doors?
Me: I know a way...
MM: To prove what they say is quite untrue
Me: Here is the gist...
MM: A practical list of "Don'ts" for you
Me: Don't throw...
MM: Bouquets at me.
Me: Don't please...
MM: My folks too much.
Me: Don't laugh...
MM: At my jokes too much.
Me & MM in harmony: People will say we're in love
MM: Which is true (kiss!)
Me: Don't sigh...
MM: And gaze at me
Me: Your sighs...
MM: Are so like mine.
Me: Your eyes...
MM: Mustn't glow like mine
Me & MM in harmony: People will say we're in love
MM: Which is true (kiss!)
Me: Don't dance...
MM: All night with me
Me: 'Til the stars...
MM: Fade from above
Me: They'll see...
MM: It's alright with me
Me & MM in harmony: People will say we're in love
MM: Which is true (kiss!)
We sing the whole song that way (with a bit of an argument over the actual words in some places). Then he has me sing The Star Spangled Banner and I fix his blankets and brush the bad dreams out of his hair and kiss him goodnight.
What do you do for your bedtime routine?
Oh, how I love this! Oh, what a beautiful eve-ning!
ReplyDelete(which version has he seen/heard? We just last month saw the DVD of the Hugh Jackman version, which has converted me to a fan of his.)
Neither! I've sung this to him in regular rotation for a while, it's just lately he's started singing it with me.
ReplyDeleteCutest thing ever!
I think we'll watch it tonight, tho.
We have the Shirley Jones version.
ReplyDeleteFor a long time I sang one of many standard lullabies, but for several months now I've been doing brahms' lullaby every night. However, SG has started singing along vigorously. Last night, when I complained, she told me singing opera tires her out so she can sleep. Unfortunately, there was no evidence of that, since she was awake a l-o-n-g time after that.
ReplyDeleteOh, and my back-up lullaby for when she's still awake an hour later is Michael Row Your Boat Ashore, with her name in the line for "sister helps to trim the sails."
ReplyDeleteOh, my. I believe I now know someone parenting even more geekily than I do!
ReplyDeleteOklahoma! You're raising that boy right!
ReplyDeleteI don't sing to the boys because I'm too self-conscious (although when AB was a tiny baby, I used to sing Pete Yorn's "Life on a Chain"). Instead, our bedtime routine consists of many cartoons, followed by two small books (for ALB) or one book (for AB).
We read 1-4 books, depending on the time, and then I sing a couple of lullabies, starting with "good night Curious Girl," which I made up on our first night together and then Politica added a verse, and it's her special song. We sing that first, and then a couple of other ones (lately she's been asking for "Sleep Like a Little Pea" which I learned from a Cathy Fink/Marcy Marxer CD).
ReplyDeleteYou two are just too cute!
That is seriously adorable.
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