Sweetness

Vi was trying to fall asleep last night, when she decided that the "Itsy Bitsy Spider" might help. I understood her hand signal as a request, so I began to sing it. She apparently knows all of the motions, and some of the words. Through her bubba I could hear her singing "la, ah, ah, la....sssshhhh!.....ah, la, la, ahhhh." The "sssshhhhh!" being, of course, "washed," when the rain came down and washed the spider out. We sang the song, oh, say, seven times, and then she fell into a deep sleep, not waking up until 5 am.

This might be our new official lullaby and "bedtime routine."

Since Dan is terrified of spiders (picture a little girl shrieking) and my icky grandfather used to sing that song to me, I NEVER would have imagined that I could find sweetness in that song...

Having a baby changes just about everything.

I, for one, am very happy to have reclaimed a perfectly good song.