Weezer Calms The Savage Baby
Posted on August 21, 2008 - Filed Under Baby Life, Life, Music, Parenting, Stinker, Year One
Alex likes music.
Actually, Alex is obssesed with music.
No that’s not right, he is obsessed with the band Weezer.
If Alex hears a song he enjoys, he will stop whatever he is doing and get lost in the music. He will sway, rock back and forth or tap his feet and do a little dance. He actually keeps time well, not bad for a 22 month old.
Alex enjoys the band Weezer more than anything. When he hears the song Pork and Beans he will forget that anything else around him exists. It’s entertaining and a little scary at the same time.
While nothing compares to his enjoyment of Weezer, he has a few other favorite bands right now including Arcade Fire, The Polyphonic Spree, Heart, Radiohead, a few Beatles songs and… MC Hammer. “Can’t Touch This”always gets him laughing.
Back to the Weezer thing. I will usually play Pork and Beans for him a few times in a row because he enjoys it so much. When I finally stop playing it, we go through a short round of crying and he gets pretty upset about it and the only thing that will calm him is an Otter Pop.
I’m not sure what kind of odd behavior pattern I am inducing by doing this. Music off > Crying > Otter Pop.
Alex also enjoys regular kid music. I have a bedtime CD that I’ve created with various songs from shows that he enjoys on Sprout and Noggin. I also have the Baby Rock covers Radiohead songs on his bedtime CD and he loves the Radiohead stuff. I close out his bedtime CD with What A Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong. Quite the mix but it works.
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Weezer? Pork and Beans? What are you doing to my grandchild?