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One of the very first songs I ever sang to my little one was “A – You’re Adorable (the Alphabet Song)” made popular by Perry Como. It is a song I learned in my teen years while teaching dance to pre-schoolers and it has always stuck with me as being a cute little ditty.
For those of you unfamiliar with it, it goes like this…
A – You’re Adorable
B – You’re So Beautiful
C – You’re a Cutie Full of Charm
D – You’re a Darling and
E – You’re Exciting and
F – You’re a Feather in My Arms….
And so on.
So fast forward to now, and my little one is almost five months old. She loves this song so much that when she is crying I simply have to start singing this (and only this) song and she immediately stops. The only problem is when I come to the end of the song and her tears start right back up. We were recently eating dinner at an upscale sushi restaurant when my little angel would not stop crying no matter what we did. (Yes, I am ‘that’ mom… We couldn’t find a sitter when we were out of town and I don’t pass up sushi.) I commenced with singing the song and had to sing it well over 20 times before she finally calmed down enough and fell asleep. I joked at the time that I needed to record myself singing it for just such occasions.
Well, the other night, she was inconsolable again, but this time I was near my handy-dandy laptop and I figured YouTube must have a version of the song that I could play for her. To my amazement, the first video clip that was offered was of Jean-Luc Picard singing the song on the bridge of the Enterprise. I immediately played it for her and she giggled away along with her mommy and daddy who thought it was just about the most bizarrely, wonderful thing out there. So hats off to Jean-Luc on saving my singing voice. I will be playing you often.
