13 weeks 4 days old

How not to be an ass?  Sing to your baby daughter.  Sing loudly.  Sing unabashedly.  I won’t torture you or embarrass myself with a video.  But here is my wife singing to our daughter.  This is what years of vocal work sounds like.  (even 4 years out of practice)

   Awesome.

Being smart, my wife sings appropriate tunes.  When I do it, I find something I like or something very random.  Particle Man by They Might Be Giants usually makes her happy, but not nearly as much as the Proclaimers.  Then I look up the rest of the lyrics and find just how inappropriate these songs are.  While I would walk 1000 miles for Von Bebe, I don’t think I’ll be getting drunk with my daughter… ever.

   I’m a little concerned with the fact that I am shy about how I sing to my daughter publicly because I don’t want her to develop the same sense of self consciousness.  Any ideas how to break out of that shell and keep from being an ass? 

3 months old!

Yep, 3 months!  And she’s always changing it up on us.  I used to be able to walk her around the house in a cradle hold until she fell asleep.  Well now that’s not good enough.

   I have to change the way I’m holding her in order to placate the generally dissatisfied demeanor that is Von Bebe.  Here is a hold that got her talking.

How not to be an ass?  Don’t give up.  When she likes something one day, but doesn’t like it the next, try something different.