Singing....

 

One of the things that i've always wished to have was a beautiful singing voice. Not to be famous or anything like that, but to be able to sing to my child (if i had a child...) lullabies. Too bad for me that my singing voice comes no where near beautiful. No one in any part of my side of the family has a good singing voice (we sound like a bunch of wounded cats when we sing together) but Robert is a wonderful singer-too bad for Emma that he's not fond of singing. So the singing duty has been relegated to me. I often worry that my singing will damage Emma's eardrums as my singing is truly that bad-but lucky for me, the child sings along with me in the same out-of-tone screeching that i do. She loves, loves to sing....and to be sung to.

This morning as she and i were in the shower (btw, i don't sound so bad in the shower....) i started singing Rock-A-Bye-Baby. Emma starts her lalala thing and we started together. For some reason, i've never really paid attention to the words to this song or any other lullabies...i've just sung them. Here are the words...just in case you don't know them:

Rock a bye, baby
On the tree top,
When the wind blows
The cradle will rock.
If the bow breaks,
The cradle will fall
And down will come baby
Cradle and all.

WHAT?!?! This is suppose to be a lullaby?? "If the bowe breaks, the cradle will fall"?? And then, the worst part: "And down will come baby, cradle and all!" Yeah, i'm sure that's real comforting to hear when you're trying to fall asleep. Granted a very young child won't understand the words, but still, couldn't they come up with anything else than what they came up with? So, i moved on to the "Humpty Dumpy" song~and that one is almost as bad:

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall!
All the king's horses
And all of the king's men
Couldn't put poor Humpty Dumpty
Together again!

So, what they? Did they just make scrambled egg feast out of poor Humpty? I'm sure that there is a child out there somewhere that has questioned about poor Humpty Dumpty...

And so, i've come up with a lullabye for Emma. She can even sing it back to me, which is the sweetest thing in the world to hear...i only wish that she didn't sound like me. Here's Emma's Song:

Sleepy time, night time
Sleepy time for Emma and Paci (her stuffed pink elephant)
Night time, sleepy time
Sleepy time for Emma and Paci.

Close your eyes, close your eyes,
Close your eyes and sleep tight
Little Emma and Paci.
Close your eyes sweet and sleep tight, Emma and Paci.

Sleepy time, sleepy time
Time to sleep, time to dream
Time to sleep and have sweet dreams
Sweet Emma and Paci.

Night time, sleepy time
Night time dreams for Emma and Paci
Dream sweet dreams
My sweet little Emma and Paci.

I know, not the most imaginative song in the world, but when she's tired, Emma will start singing the song by herself. It makes me smile, hearing her sing the song to her gaggle of stuffed animals after i've left the room. Of course, she forgets words, lol, but it's even cuter when she sings it that way.

Maybe one day, she'll forget how horrible i sing and just remember our song.