Sing a Song of Sixpence

Parenting experts recommend talking to your child, interacting with them, and even singing to them.  Now, we try to do right by our child, so we do engage her in conversation, despite her less than stellar contributions to the discussion (gooey-gooey-gooey doesn't often add a lot to the discourse, though we do enjoy it).  


We play and dance with her even though she hasn't taken much of a shine to the waltz, her cha-cha is pretty weak and her tango is, well, kind of a mess.  But she is pretty awesome at the stomping baby dance, wherein she stamps her right foot repeatedly, both on and off the beat.  Yeah, we're waiting for the dance shows to call.  


And even ol' tone deaf dad sings to her.  Only problem is, I only know two songs.  The spiderman theme song and "little boxes" (a.k.a. the "Weeds" theme song).  So, every song she gets is a variation thereof.  The other problem is, I don't have a very good memory, so every song is slightly to extravagantly different.  But, they do have one thing in common, they're all crap.  Just abysmally horrific.  And I realized, singing to your child is great in a general sense, but in my specific case, I should probably just stick with talking.  I mean, how helpful is hearing, to the tune of "The Amazing Spiderman"


Baby girl,
Baby girl,
Does whatever a baby girl does.
Can she swing from a tree?
No she can't, she's just a baby.
Watch out, here comes the doodle bear.


Yeah, I just need to leave the musical teaching to others.  You know, non-morons.  Oh well, that just leaves more time for the stomping baby dance.