Monday, August 27, 2007

name that tune

E's bedtime routine has remained relatively unchanged in the 3 years since she was born. Take a bath, put on jammies, brush teeth and wash face, read stories, sing songs and then it's time for bed. While I've already discussed how we sometimes have different ideas about what to read, it's the song part that gets tricky.

When E was a baby, I could sing whatever I wanted. But, as she got older, she would go on various kicks. We sang O Susannah so much when she was about 18 months that we considered naming A that. Then we went through the American Idol phase, where I would start singing songs, only to be rejected.
"The sun will come out tomor...." I would begin.
"No!" E would say.
"I'm a little Froggie and my mommy..." I would try.
"NO!" E would interject.
"Raindrops on roses..."
"NO NO NO!" she would tell me.

This would go on for five minutes before we would eventually settle on a song.

We've sang lullabyes, we've sang Lauri Berkner, we've sang The Beatles, we've sang musicals, The Sound of Music and Annie being particular favorites. Heck, we've even sang the theme songs to Dora, Diego and the Backyardigans. But now we're in a new stage...the request for a song that doesn't exist.
"Sing the Snow White song," E told me last night. It was an ode to the Snow White panties she had been wearing that day.
"E, there's no such thing as a Snow White song. Well...how about: Hi ho, hi ho, it's off to sleep we go..." I sing.
"No, the SNOW WHITE song," she tells me. I look at her blankly, so she begins.
Snow White is a princess
:::mumble mumble mumble:::
She has a friend Cinderella
:::mumble mumble mumble:::
And Ariel is a princess, too.
And there is Sonya Lee
who is a Little People...

Well, duh. The Snow White song. How silly of me!

1 comment:

Steel Magnolia said...

so cute! Harrison always wants to sing the Diego song...but his version only..."rescue my friends song". He sings this over and over again as he strums daddy's guitar!