Baby Songs

One of the blogs I read had a thing today called Friday Faves with favorite songs you sing or sang to your babies. Like she told the songs she made up and sung to each of her children using their names. That is cool. I thought I was the only one who did that until I heard my sister doing it.

When they were babies, I sang all the time. It is funny what you will do to quiet a crying kid or to keep yourself awake so you don't fall asleep and dump them out of your lap at 3 am.

I learned the words to lullabies for B. I sang Hush Little Baby a lot--and Rock a Bye Baby. But I probably sang Itsy Bitsy Spider the most, especially when trying to feed her baby food. I also sang the "Name Game" song to her all the time.

I sung to E also. I sang while he nursed. Rock a bye baby again. More Itsy Bitsy Spider. And the name game with his name. Not much imagination on my part, but with that lack of sleep how on earth can you be creative??

Now with K, her name refuses to work with the name game. No way at all. But that was not fair, she HAD to have her name sung too. One day she was crying and I started humming--no it isn't humming but "doing" the BATMAN theme song. I can't even tell you why I know the Batman song. Where you are supposed to sing the word "Batman", I sang K's name. It just fit perfectly. Did I mention I was really sleep deprived??

I sang while nursing K too. My very favorite thing to sing to her was Amazing Grace. I learned all the verses And when my brain was too tired to remember all the words, I just sang the "Praise God" version. I enjoyed that very much. I enjoyed it more than she did, I guess. One day I was singing but after a few seconds, she reached up and covered my mouth with her little hand. I assume she was telling me to hush, that she knew as well as I did that Mommy cannot sing at all. I laughed out loud and stopped singing.

They all tell me now how good I sing, and even ask why I don't sing at church. I love that my babies still like to listen to their mommy sing. Because, really, I cannot sing AT ALL. Can't carry a tune in a bucket, that's me. But I will always treasure the memories of singing to all three of my babies. I would like to re-live that somehow when I get to Heaven...