You know those routines that are just "routine" now but in sweet moments you realize how much they will, someday, be missed. Kristyn and I have just such a moment. Most evenings when putting Kristyn to bed I will ask her if she is ready to go to sleep and her response is, "no! wokaby!" For those of you who don't know her language she loves to rockaby. So Kristyn and I sit down in our rocking chair. Her cuddled in my arms with a favorite "banky" and "baba" and we sing. The songs are always the same. First "puppy song" which is "How much is that doggy in the window" and then "you are my sunshine". Kristyn does the woofing part on the puppy song and sings along with me to the "sunshine" song. She giggles throughout all the singing. We always end with our homemade nigh-night song. She sings to each person in the family and then laughs as I sing to her....
"Nigh-night Kristyn,
nigh-night Kristyn,
night-night Kristyn,
we love you very much."
Then we both pray and she happily lays down in bed. She loves the banky over her face and as I am shutting the door and I hear a sweet, "bubyeeee"
2 comments:
I sing the puppy song at night time, as well. I learned it from you. I have never heard it anywhere else and am certain I sing it wrong. I can never remember the last two lines. Something like, "if he had a pup to keep him company, than the puppy would have a good home. " But, that doesn't make sense...fix me! Love you friend:)
If he had a pup he wouldn't be lonely, and the puppy would have a good home.
I love that you sing it too. I learned it from my Dad.
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