The more we get together

Having two babies that cry a lot requires an arsenal of tricks to soothe them even if they are temporary measures. There's the rocking, there's the walking up and down, there's me prancing little ballet steps that seem to stun them into silence quite effectively, there's also a combination of everything including the perennial favourite, singing.

We sing all sorts of things to the babies. although I haven't sung Baby Got Back like Ross and Rachel did on Friends. I have however started singing them songs from my childhood or rather music lessons in primary school. It's amazing how many songs I remember. To date, I've sung them Auld Lang Sye, If You're Happy and You Know It..., The More We Get together, both the English and the Chinese version although there're parts of it with words I don't remember.

Strange to think that when I was haplessly singing these songs as a kid, I never knew they were actually going to come in useful 20 years later. Now to get my hands on one of those song books with the big treble cleft on the cover, just so that I can expand my repertoire.

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