If you were to wander by our house around 7:30 p.m. on any given evening - and the windows happened to be open - you would hear this unusual argument going on:Jake: King Kong!
Me: Curious George!
Jake: King Kong!
Me and Haley: Curious George!
Jake: King Kong!
Etc., etc., ad nauseum...
Ever since I weaned Jake a few months ago, we've had to establish a new bedtime routine. Somehow the only consistently effective method we could come up with was to dance him to sleep in our arms. Sometimes he'll tolerate me singing the Pie Song from the Waitress soundtrack (see our music list below), but who could stand that for very long? The Curious George soundtrack is something we've played over and over since he was born, as he seemed to prefer the faster and more upbeat songs to traditional lullabies. This still works great, but "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" is one that Rob just happens to like and Jake started requesting. It took us a few days to figure out that "King Kong" really is mentioned in the song a few times and that's what he meant.
The other day I sorted our I-Tunes library by the "play count" column, and this is what I saw:
Bad, Bad, Leroy Brown - 217
Upside Down - 98
Broken - 94
People Watching - 91
Wrong Turn - 85
You can see who usually wins the above argument...the rest of the songs are the first 4 on the Curious George soundtrack. Fortunately he's usually out by the end of the second song. Soon we'll get to work on weaning him from the dancing, but for now we're content to have him drift off to sleep in our arms, dreaming about junkyard dogs and mischievous monkeys.
