SweetPea3 Playlists

CanCan, 01 August 2008,
Categories: Winner's List

I am so eager to select the SweetPea3 player giveaway winner. I had a super-fun time reading all of the entries, although I was TOTALLY FLOORED to have over 500!!! (573, to be exact. Woot woot!)

Looking at what you guys and your children listen to gave me some inspiration for songs to introduce to my own children. Sometimes I get so caught up in life that I forget about things like how I always wanted to teach Jojo how to sing “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”.

I expected you all to say that your children loved the familiar favorites like Veggie Tales, the Wiggles, nursery rhymes, and worship songs, and many of you did, but there were a few unexpecteds, too:

Lisa’s child has a patriotic spirit and enjoys the Star-Spangled Banner and God Bless America,
and Lori’s kids only calm down when they hear “You’re A Grand Old Flag”.

I guess I have been living under a rock, because I have never heard of Laurie Berkner, but she has lots of fans in the blogosphere: pjmomof3boys , Preppy Mommy, Ashley, Beckie, kamewh , Michelle, Tiff, mommiof4, and many others, but I started having back pain…

Lots of They Might Be Giants lovers: Steph , Katrina , EG , Kristine (who likes Laurie Berkner, too) , ispeakbeanish, and others who I missed and/or were unlinkable because they don’t have blogs. I can’t imagine life without a blog. *melancholy moment while I try to imagine a bloggless life*…

That Crazy Mom and Garden Gnome reminded me that I should be sharing my favorite Beatles songs with my kids…they would probably love them!

And I also forgot about all of the “oldies” songs that I know by heart (did I ever tell you my dad was an oldies deejay for most of my life?). My kids could be rockin’ to “Oh, Sweet Pea”, like Jenn, or “Witch Doctor” like Lilith Silvermane , or Barbara Ann like ShaunJoy .

TV show theme songs rank up there with “songs I feel the most dumb singing when my son requests them”: like Thomas The Train Theme that poor Awesome Mom has to endure , or “Go Diego Go!” which is also a favorite at 3boyzmom’s house . That one is hard to sing if you don’t know Spanish. And poor Melissa! Her kids like the Spongebob Squarepants theme song! Jnmacdonald’s children like the theme from Little Einsteins, just like my son Jojo. (I actually kind of like singing that one…shh!)

Heather feels guilty that her kids like the song “Hot Girls” by INXS, and Christian Kay is a bit embarrassed that her family loves Journey’s Greatest Hits, but I don’t think these moms need to stay in the closet about their non-kiddie selections.

Once we rented a car for 3 days and it had a lone Scorpions tape left in the player. It became the theme of our trip, and we made up new lyrics to “Winds of Change” (we didn’t touch the whistling solo though; that is already flawless. If you ever record an album of any kind, whistling solo= musical genius).

Nicole R.J. made me laugh thinking how fun it would be to see my son trying to sing Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

Amanda reminded me of the song New Soul which totally makes me cry, EVEN in iPod commercial form (I’m such a dork) because it makes me think of my little new soul baby Deeds who was just born this year *sniff*. He’s just trying to learn what is true and fake! *sob*

THE EVER SO FORTUNATE WINNER IS: Julie who will be uploading “Cookie Monster’s C is for Cookie” song! Yee-haw!!!

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