Baby wanna cracker?

Years of being certified (certifiable?) parrot slaves is very good practice for parenthood.

Parrots enjoy hearing their name repeated back to them in little stories and songs, because most parrots are the mental and emotional equivalent of a toddler human. Long ago I cast off embarrassment and got moderately adept at taking perfectly ordinary songs and making them bird happy.

This comes in handy for The Meltdown Kid. Take that old Doris Day standard and soon it becomes

I don't care if the sun don't shine
I'll kiss my baby in the morning time
When I'm bathing Braeden
I don't care if the skies are grey
Cos I'd rather stay home all day
Playing with my Braeden

Etc

Or the Bangles song "Eternal Flame" can easily be morphed into a lullaby to rival Brahms totally overdone ditty. (Try it... it works very well especially if you slow it down and do the rhythmic pat thing in time)

I was a bit self conscious about anyone hearing me; after all, I can't carry a tune in a bucket. But sooner or later, it had to happen. With the hearing of a bat, Wayne heard me and took note.

Soon he had his own wee offering and it's not a bad one, either! See if you can guess the original tune:

Meltdown Baby, two foot long
Do dah Do dah
Meltdown Baby, two foot long,
eight weeks old today
Gonna feed all night
Gonna scream all day
Got my parents on the run
That's the Braeden way!

You'd think the bloke would consider it a compliment when his wife started borrowing his ditty, but no..

"Get your own" he complained. The cheek of it!

...oo0oo...

Btw, the party went off particularly well yesterday, despite Kidlet refusing to get much sleep in the morning, and almost none in the afternoon. A few minor meltdowns but nothing much in the scheme of things. Lots of cuddles for all who wanted them, and very few upchuckies.

#1 Grandma had fun with #1 Grandson, even down to giving him his bath at the end of the day. We got lots on mpeg video (clever digital camera!) and lots of fun family shots too. That's the other thing I forgot to put on a "must have" list for parents - a digital camera with rechargeable battery and a big memory card. Dunno where we'd be without ours.

Happy Birthday again, Mum :-)