Lucy’s Top 10
I have discovered like other parents before me that babies are susceptible to the iTunes visualizer (a spirograph-like color changing effect display) and will be transfixed by it, sometimes even falling asleep.
Lucy likes it, and likes to be sung to, esp. songs we make up that keep changing as time goes by. I thought I’d write down some of them before we forget.
Without further ado, Lucy’s Top Ten:
10: Beach Boys – Surfer Girl – I have been singing this to her a lot since I got her that ’surfer girl’ onesie. She smiles each time. And as one Beach Boys tune leads to another, we also listen to ‘God Only Knows’ and ‘Wouldn’t it Be Nice.’
9. Wii – theme music – Nintendo has some catchy tunes. I even find myself humming old Mario songs from the N64 game we recently ported to the Wii.
8. The Beatles – Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, When I’m 64, among others. I made her listen to played her the Beatles in utero, along with other classics. Reminds me of this dialogue from Sliding Doors (said with thick Scottish accent):
James: Everybody’s born knowing all the Beatles lyrics instinctively. They’re passed into the fetus subconsciously along with all the amniotic stuff. Fact, they should be called “The Fetals.”
7. Abba -Dancing Queen – ‘young and sweet, only 6 months old…’ I’ve seen Daddy and Lucy dance to this.
6. ‘Bing Bang Boom’ – to the tune of the can-can (I think), inspired by the toy with three heads than hangs above her changing table.
5. ‘Bundle’ – sung to the tune of ‘Thunderstruck’ by ACDC (Bundle is a nickname for the little bundle of joy).
4. ‘Bundle Bundle Bundle Bundle’ sung to the catchy theme of ‘Badger Badger Badger Badger’
3. ‘Tall Girl’ /’Good Morning Little Girl’- ‘Tall girl, tall girl, doobie doobie doobie doop, tall girl.’ Sung when she is standing up. Tied with ‘Good Morning, Little Girl,’ for when she wakes up, obviously.
2 ‘It’s you’ – yet another song I made up, with only a chorus: ‘You’re a goofy girl and a friend of Doo, and it’s you– it’s you, and it’s you-oo-oo.’
1. ‘Are you ready for a smackum,’ sung (I think) to the ‘are you ready for some football’ song.
Now let’s hear from Daddy what his Top Ten are, since they are completely different…
“Lucy’s Top 10″. So that’s the name of that album. I was wondering, since I hear those tunes everyday. I think my fave of the bunch is “Are You Ready for a Shmackum!” That tune’s got a good beat and is easy to drool to.
Auntie Laura says “are you ready for a Smackum” is based on a song from Meatballs (a pre-’Lost in Translation’ Bill Murray movie). Sounds like she’s a friend of Bill Haverchuck (Freaks and Geeks)!