Filkin' baby style

[beetiger]

I sing a lot around here. Pretty much everything I do with the baby, I sing about. Mostly I make up songs to well-known tunes. Alternately, I just sing silly songs that seem relevant, except I forget a lot of the words so I have to make them up.

I seem to have developed a lot of songs about being naked. I never worried about it until last weekend, when we had some lovely houseguests (hi, melskunk!), and I realized that singing "It's naked tummy time/ it's naked tummy time, 'cause everything's more fun/when you have no clothes on" was perhaps a bit odd.

But the latest one to develop is the bath song. I've been singing "Splish Splash", reasonably enough. But for some reason, I couldn't remember the fourth line, so I was singing "Splish Splash, I was takin' a bath/All upon a Saturday night!/ Rubadub, I was scrubbing in the tub...", and then for some reason, the next line kept coming out "Lookin' for an angel to fi-ight...".

In any case, I ended up finishing it, and so now I'm singing to my son at bathtime: "Lookin' for an angel to fi-ight/ So I found that angel and I kicked its butt/ It went running to the Angel Hut/ Splish Splash, I got back in the bath, it's alright!"

Does this make me a bad mom?

Comments

[thatpatti.livejournal.com]

haha, that's too funny. i make up songs all the time, too.

my personal favorite:

if you're chubby and you know it, chub-a-wub
if you're chubby and you know it, chub-a-wub
if you're chubby and you know it, then your chub will surely show it,
if you're chubby and you know it, chub-a-wub

how's that for giving my child a positive body image? ;)

[melskunk.livejournal.com]

Oh, The Naked Baby Time song was a big hit on our ride home :D

[beetiger.livejournal.com]

I love it! Right now I've got a pretty skinny boy on my hands, but I'm all in favor of raising our kids chub-positive. :)

[lapis-lazuli.livejournal.com]

When I was a baby, my mom used to wash my hair and sing "Bye Bye Dirt" to the tune of "Bye Bye Blues". I was in my late teens before I heard the actual song. It gave me quite the gigglefit.

[ubiquity.livejournal.com]

I love those lyrics! You rule! (:

[galeogirl.livejournal.com]

Another filker of baby tunes here. Miranda's name just fits into so many songs so well.

To the tune of La Bamba:

I got a lotta Miranda in my arms, o in my arms, o in my arms
I got a lotta Miranda in my arms, o in my arms, o in my arms
Love, love Miranda
Love, love my girl
Love, love Miranda
Miranda

[chipuni.livejournal.com]

What goes on between two consenting people is... lots of fun!

Maybe not everything

[redbird]

But a great many things are more fun with no clothes on. And most of the exceptions are things Rhys won't be doing for a while yet: cooking bacon, for example (or anything else that can spatter hot fat). Pruning roses and other thorny bushes. Skiing.

[beowabbit]

No, it makes you an excellent fabulous mom! Rhys is so lucky!

[secanth.livejournal.com]

(Chuckle) Runnerwolf grew up sandwiched between filk and Jim Morrison and the Doors...it didn't seem to hurt her any.

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

I like your version of Splish Splash!

When Charlotte was a little one in the bath, I used to sing "Gonna Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair" and "Rubber Ducky" to her, as well as "Splish Splash," just like my mother did for me. I think my mother may have remembered more of the words from South Pacific than I did, though.

[cloverr.livejournal.com]

I never had much of a voice for singing (and now my daughter tells me to shut up if I try to sing along with the radio), but Hannah and I both recall fondly when she was little and I would make up stories to tell her about "the rats that lived in her hair" to distract her when I brushed her hair and detangled snarls.

It's fine as long as you realize...

[orb2069.livejournal.com]

...that your child's going to become a born-again Republican some time in it's mid teens - You know, the rebelious phase?

[rowyn]

One of my friends taught his daughter animal sounds:

The dog goes bark
The cow goes moo
The cat goes ack thhhbbpt.

I think Rhys will be just fine. :)

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

I predict a son who'll get a strange and overwhelming feeling of "Ohhhhh....so *that's* what it was all about!" the first time he watches Evangelion, anyhow...