Imma Be

When I was in my second trimester with Evelyn, the song, "Lady Marmalade" came on the radio. If you're not familiar with it, you're listening to the wrong kind of music! Just kidding : ) It's a very upbeat song that came out several years ago as part of the Moulin Rouge soundtrack. I love that song so I turned up the volume and when I did, Evelyn started kicking! She was dancing in the womb : ) Throughout the rest of my pregnancy I noticed several times that when I was playing hip hop/r&b type music, she would kick. I joked with Bard that she was a hip hop baby and it drove him crazy because he is a bit more on the alternative rock side (which I like as well) and not a fan of hip hop.

FlashForward-Several months ago Evelyn started really paying attention to the music I was playing and even requesting certain songs. I noticed that she mostly connected with upbeat music, poppy, catchy tunes. The songs she asked me to play most often were ones like "Boom Boom Pow" by Black Eyed Peas or "Mama Mia" by Abba. About this same time Bard started to complain about the lyrics in many of these songs, which even in the clean radio versions have phrases about being drunk and other such topics that are inappropriate for a two year old! So it's been a joke between us for quite a while that as soon as Evelyn started to comprehend the lyrics well enough to say them back to us-that would be the end of it. I would have to switch the station and only play child friendly songs : (

So you can imagine Bard's delight and my sorrow when yesterday, as we were enjoying watching Evelyn dance to "Imma Be" by Black Eyed Peas (downloaded from itunes and there are no clean versions) she busts out with "Imma be flyest chick" ! Bard jumped off the couch saying, "That's it, that's it! Turn it off, she can't listen to it anymore." Thinking about it, I'm pretty sure he has secretly been teaching her to repeat Fergie's lyrics just so he would have an excuse not to listen to hip hop anymore.

I guess it's Veggie Tales for me from here on out : (