Nina loves music

Or should I say "myoo-kik?" (Pronounced with great precision, btw. She has very careful enunciation.) First of all, she is obsessed with singing Happy Birthday, to anyone and everyone. We have to get out the video camera & get it on tape. She doesn't know what it means, but she loves the song b/c you can insert anyone's name into it. The most popular version goes: Happy Birthday to you, Dadd-eee, Dadd-eee, Dadd-ee! Or sometimes just, "Happy to YOU, Daddy." She sits at her toy piano and accompanies herself. In addition to singing to all the usual human suspects, we also sing to: dogs, raisins, grapes, and have been known to send birthday salutations to hockey and to my breasts. Nuff said.

In the car, we have a regular rotation of CD's. You would think that since my car has a 6-CD changer (awesome), we wouldn't get bored. However, if you are 18 months old, you have about 6 favorite songs, and need to hear each one on repeat about 1000 times before you can move on. Note to self: Laurie Berkner makes lovely music, but after about 100 repetitions of The Pretzel Store, or worse, The More We Get Together (running time: a mere 62 seconds, aka the Happy Be song), I qualify for a music induced lobotomy.

Today Nina discovered Laurie's track I'm a Mess, which is a fun song - more of a chant:

I'm a mess!
I'm a mess!
I'm a big old messy mess!

However, my belief is that Nina is convinced it is actually about Elmo, as in:

Elmo mess!
Elmo mess!
Elmo big old messy mess!

Awesome.

Plus, Nina has discovered that we have a song that is ABOUT HER! That song would be Snow Day, by the band Bleu. A relevant excerpt:

On my knees and pray
For a snowy day
'Cause I need a break
and I wanna sled the day away
I need a snow day!


What Nina hears:

On my knees and pray
For a snowy day
'Cause I NINA break
and I wanna sled the day away
NINA snow day!

She calls it the Nina Snowy Song.