I've been meaning to make a note of all of Dominic's favorite songs, and I'd like to invite anyone who is reading this to either post comments or send me email with suggestions of other songs to sing for him, perhaps songs from your own childhood or songs you sang to your children that they enjoyed.
Old MacDonald
Old Mac Donald had a farm
E-I-E-I-O
And on that farm he had a _____ (animal)
E-I-E-I-O
With a ___ ___ (animal's sound) here
and a ___ ___ (sound) there
Here a ___ there a ___, everywhere a ___ ___.
Old MacDonald had a farm
E-I-E-I-O
(Animals we use are duck-quack, dog-arf, cat-meow, cow-moo, sheep-baa, donkey-heehaw, owl-hoo, and we've even thrown in lions-rrrrowr, and monkeys-oo-oo-ah-ah, and the occasional bee-bzzbzz. What animals do you use?)
Old MacDonald is a great song for stopping a booboo face, like if something scares him or if you take something away that he wanted to put in his mouth like a pen.
A great song for preventing a tantrum when wet-wiping Dominic's face and hands is "Happy and You Know It". We sing "If you're happy and you know it, wash your face (wash wash), If you're happy and you know it, wipe your hands (wipe wipe), If you're happy and you know it, then you're face will surely show it! If you're happy and you know it wash your face (wash wash)." It's remarkably the perfect length of song to get both hands and his face clean before it's over.
Night-time lullabyes...
My mom used to sing this to me:
I see the moon and the moon sees me
The moon sees the somebody I want to see
So God bless the moon and God bless me
And God bless the somebody I want to see
I really think
That God above
Created you for me to love!
He picked you out
From all the rest
Because He knew I would love you the best!
If I get to Heaven and you're not there,
I'll write your name on the golden stair.
I'll put it there
For all to see
That I love you and you love me!
And this one she would sing to my little brother, John. It's so incredible to be singing it to my own little boy! I looked all over the internet to find a version of Bing Crosby singing it that I could link you to, but couldn't find one that you don't have to pay for. You can click here and then scroll down to number 21 and click the little arrow in that row to get it to play. If you have iTunes you can search the iTunes store for "little man bing crosby" and they will let you listen to a snippet. The lyrics shown on his version are not 100% the same as the way I learned it.
Little man, you're crying
I know why you're blue
Someone took your kiddie car away
Better go to sleep now
Little Man, you've had a busy day
Johnny won your marbles?
Tell you what we'll do
Dad'll get you new ones right away
Better go to sleep now
Little Man, you've had a busy day
You've been playing soldier
The battle has been won
The enemy is out of sight
Come along now, soldier
Put away your gun
The war is over for tonight
Time to stop your scheming
Time your day was through
Can't you hear the Sandman softly say
Better go to sleep now
Little Man, you've had a busy day.
We also love "You Are My Sunshine" (we sang this to Dominic when he was first born, hoping he would recognize it from all the times we sang it to him before he was born), and when we open the blinds to let in the sunshine in the mornings, we always sing "Sunshine on my shoulders"
Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy
Sunshine in my eyes can make me cry
Sunshine on the water looks so lovely
Sunshine almost always makes me high
If I had a day that I could give you
I'd give to you a day just like today
If I had a song that I could sing for you
I'd sing a song to make you feel this way:
Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy
Sunshine in my eyes can make me cry
Sunshine on the water looks so lovely
Sunshine almost always makes me high
Sometimes we play the Beatles "Here Comes the Sun" and dance around the bonus room. Have you ever noticed that most songs with "sun" in the title are pretty fun, positive songs?
Here's a video of Dominic singing...
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