Night Night Owie!

So every night when it's time to go to bed, I sing Owen songs. (And as a side note-my kid LOVES to go to bed…tell him time to clean up to go night night…he says "yep", cleans up, and runs to his room. Awesome!!) Anyway, some of the songs are old ones my mom sang to me (You Are My Sunshine, and the lesser known Running Bear). Some are songs I sang as a child (San Antonio Stroll), and some are just songs I like (Puff the Magic Dragon, Dream A Little Dream, I Will). We always end with You Are My Sunshine, thus it has become known as the "nigh nigh song".

Sometimes, when he's super-tired, I will start to sing one song and he'll stop me~"Nigh Nigh Mommy", meaning "just sing You Are My Sunshine, and we'll call it a night". I love it!

Lately though he has decided he wants to DJ the night by making song requests. So we sit there in the dark and he chooses the song. When he decides which one he wants, he puts his little hand on my mouth and says "XXX" naming which song he wants. If I start to sing the wrong one, he corrects me~"no mommy, XXX" (whatever XXX may be).

He has come up with clever names for all the songs:

As I said, "nigh nigh" is actually You Are My Sunshine.

"Indian" is Running Bear (a tragic story of a young Indian brave who is in love with a girl on the other side of the river and when they finally try to swim to each other, they both drown just as they get in reach)-yeah, I know, not too politically correct, but hey, he's two!

"Dance" is San Antonio Stroll the old Tanya Tucker song, and the first "real" song I learned all the words to.

"Love" is I Will by the Beatles.

"Dragon" is obviously Puff the Magic Dragon by good ole Peter, Paul, and Mary

"Dream" is Dream and Little Dream by the Mama's and the Papas. (I love this song and have always looked forward to singing it to my baby, but Mackenzie Phillips' latest revelations about Papa John kinda oog me out when I sing it now. But it's still a great song, and it's not like he's getting any royalties from me!

"Got It" or "Baby" is You Got It by Roy Orbison-the song Brian and I danced to at our wedding.

So that's it…our juke box of songs. We could use a few more if anyone has some good suggestions! Every night we sing 3 songs-well 2 songs, and then end with "nigh nigh".

Man I love that kid.