One of the best parts of parenting is
listening to the kids sing. It’s sweet and funny all at once. I
was laughing to myself the other day as both kids were singing
(to themselves, not together) the theme song to the show Weeds.
Anyone ever watch that? We saw it on Netflix and I don’t know
how old it is, but it’s a show about a pot-dealing housewife.
It has a great theme song and Alan discovered that it settles
Eve right down. Now both of the kids know it by heart and I
sometimes wonder what people are thinking when the kids burst
into song (that song anyway) in public. Lex has also taken a
liking to a song from his new Thomas the Train DVD. He sings
the sone (a lot!) and speaks the words (“I’m saying a poem!”)
and even and spent a fair amount of time yesterday teaching me
the words. Eve will randomly burst into “I am the dairy-O!”
(hi-ho the dairy-o) but she doesn’t know all the words so it’s
usually just that line over and over. She’s pretty good at the
alphabet song these days. As part of our new, mostly successful
bedtime routine, Eve and I snuggle in the big brown chair in
her room and I sing her a few songs before putting her in bed.
Today I brought her up for a nap and found all of the beds
stripped (Alan was cleaning!!), so I put her down and started
making the beds. She climbed up into the chair and said “do
self, sing self!”, then started singing the Weeds song (“little
boxes”) and the alphabet, the two songs we typically sing. She
sat there happily singing herself bedtime songs until I got
done with the sheets and cuddled with her. I love their
singing! Can you tell? :)