Famous?

I have admitted to you in the past how crazy I can be while working with Luke in the driveway…singing and dancing….looking like a crazy woman.  Well I find myself wondering how crazy I would look to anyone who might watch what I do each day with Luke and our baby girl.  I find myself singing at the strangest times.  We may be walking around the house, cleaning up toys, getting dressed, changing dirty diapers or just waking up in the morning, when I break out into song.

I find a song for everything.  We’ll be walking down the hallway to change a diaper and I’ll make up some song, “here we go a walking, a walking, a walking…here we go a walking to change a stinky diaper!”.  It makes Luke laugh, and make me look like a crazy woman.

I also find myself reverting back to some of my old singing habits.  When Luke was only a couple months old, dressing him was no fun at all.  He would scream and scream, so I started singing to him.  Now what kind of song could I sing when getting someone dressed?  Well, the “Hokey Pokey” of course!!  At this early age it took a whole verse of “put your right leg in…” to get his right leg in.  But, now we are a little faster so I find myself singing “you put your right foot in you put your right foot out….you put your left foot in and you shake it all about!”

Either way it makes him happy.  When he was only a couple months old it quieted him down and often made him stare at me like I was a crazy lady.  Now when Luke is squirming all over the floor while I try to put his pants on, I sing this song and he laughs.  Sometimes he kicks his legs too, like he does when he is excited, so the “Hokey Pokey” will keep him from rolling over and scooting backward…but I have to deal with the kicking.  Have you ever tried to put pants on a boy who is kicking both legs?  No easy task, let me tell you. 

One day I’ll figure out the perfect song to calm him completely for the task of dressing.  Between my own version of “Hokey Pokey” and all the other songs I make up, maybe I should cut a Demo?  I could call it “Mommy tunes”.  One day you could all say…”I knew her when….” Then again….maybe not….just a crazy thought from a crazy mom.