>PS: Are you reading to Katy yet?
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>Not yet, she's still a bit too squirmy for reading. Maybe after a year (I've got plenty of baby books to read to her this summer)
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>She likes it when I sing - so I go back and forth between real baby songs, and completely inappropriate songs...here was the playlist for tonight's session when I was rocking her to sleep
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>"I love to eat, eat, eat....apples and bananas"
>"Lined a hundred women up against the wall"
>"Patty cake, patty cake"
>"Birdie, birdie with the yellow bill, landed on my window sill - I lured him in with a piece of bread, then I crushed his _______ head"
>"In to the night, when the moon is bright"
>"A young man who dwelled from Nantucket...."
>"Rock-a-bye baby"
>"Lined a hundred women up against the wall" (Alternate take, because it really hacks Gwen off)
>"The ants go marching one by one"
>"Lined a hundred women up against the wall" (encore performance, earns me a good elbow from the wife, while Katy laughs at the entire thing)

Ha ha.

I know she has opened up a part of you you didn't know you had, hasn't she?

My daughters loved Raffi when they were little. "Baby Beluga", "The More We Get Together", "The Banana Song", "Shake My Sillies Out", "The Wheels on the Bus". When Allie was little, about 2 1/2, Raffi was in town for a show at the Chicago Theater downtown. I took her. It was a little surreal because it was a quiet Sunday night and everyone there was little girls and parents. We got to our seats and Allie kept asking, "Where's Raffi?" She didn't quite get it that he would be there in person, it wouldn't be a video. I kept telling her he's in his car and will be here soon. When he came out a look of pure delight came over her face. During one song she stepped out into the aisle -- "I dance" -- and twirled in circles. That is probably my best memory of the girls being young.