It was weird coming home last night - seeing my little son for the first time after three nights on the road. I guess I was waiting for him to meet me with hungry eyes and a big giggle. Instead he stuck his tongue out, leaned his head back and farted. Good to see you too, Junior.
Kathy had solo duty with him for the first time while I was gone, then cheated and had her mom over another night. He treated her very well, as he continues to sleep well at night.
We each are finding our own tune to hum or sing while we hold him and calm him down, before or after a feeding when he's a little cranky. Kathy began humming a tune before I left for KC that had a quick, snappy, and repetitive chorus. I quickly identified the tune as "99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall". She says it repeats itself easy enough and doesn't have to get into any tricky musical pitch bridges.
For more than a week, I began humming a tune over and over again that initially I could only identify loosely as an old television commercial jingle, from at least the 80s and possibly even the 70s. I couldn't remember all the words or the product. But, over time I began piecing more and more bits of the tune together. What I've arrived at, and the tune that I hum to my son during prime DWI hours of 2:00-5:00am, is the following ...
Here's to good friends
Tonight is kind of special
The beer will pour
Must say something more somehoowwww....
So tonight ... toniiiiiggghht ....
Let it be Lowenbrau.
I've found that it too does not have any big peaks in pitch and allows me to stay in a bass that I think is soothing to Kole as he feels the vibrations off my chest.
Incidentally, in an update of the previous post, we got our bill from the anaesthesiologist, and his total charges were $3630, of which we are stuck with paying $469. The previous charge I noted below had something to do with anaesthesiology that had something to do with the hospital. So, anyway, put that final price tag at $20,703 to bring a healthy baby into the world without a single complication whatsoever. Real nice, huh?
11 years ago

guess he is going to be a beer guy, too bad the soothing Corona waves cant be hummed ;)
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