Kid nicknames and songs

[celticdragonfly]

I was musing this morning on my kids' nicknames and songs.

Each child had a prenatal and baby nickname. Brendan was the Kidlet. Maggie was the Peanut, bestowed on her by selenesue on seeing an early ultrasound pic. Jamie was Thumper, after a discussion Karl and I had about his kicking. (Briefly superseded with 'Godot' when he was two weeks late and counting - "It's like Beckett with vomiting!) Alanna was the Little Larva - which we since realized was the only prenatal nickname that didn't work after birth. She has become the Adoragirl since then.

The youngest three all have had songs - started when I was trying to change a fussy Maggie baby in the back of the van in an underground parking garage after eating with her at an IHOP. Maggie's song is TTTO the chorus bit, 'Someone's in the kitchen with Dinah". Jamie's song, and the Jamie Diaper song, are TTTO Frere Jacque.

Alanna's first song I couldn't think where the tune came from, and had to call up bkseiver and ask. Apparently it's a kids' game type song, "Did you ever see a lassie". I'm not familiar with the game at all, but apparently my subconscious knew the tune. I realized a while back that Alanna's was the only song that didn't use the child's middle name as well as first name, so did another for her TTTO "You Are My Sunshine". When I mentioned to fordprfct that I was looking for a tune for both names, he came up with one to the Rubber Ducky song.

Maggie song:

I love Maggie Maggie Rose,
Maggie Maggie Rose loves me-e-e-e,
I love Maggie Maggie Rose,
As sweet as she can be!
(alternate, as silly as she can be)

Jamie's song:

Jamie Kevin, Jamie Kevin,
Darling boy, little boy,
Mama really loves you,
and your Daddy does too,
You're our joy, our sweet boy!
(alternate "Sister Maggie does too!")

Alanna's first song:

You're my little sweetheart, Alanna, Alanna,
You're my little sweetheart,Alanna my girl.
I'll love you and hug you,
and kiss you and sing to you
(MANY variants in these two lines)
You're my little sweetheart, Alanna, my girl.

Alanna Keely first song:

Alanna Keely, you are my sunshine,
You make me happy, both night and day.
I hope you know just how Mama loves you,
Alanna Keely, don't ever go away.

And okay, I still need to work out the rest of the lyrics for the Rubber Ducky one.

Yes, it's all doggerel. Exactly. Little kids LIKE doggerel.

Comments

[awamiba.livejournal.com]

I'm glad to hear that I'm not the only one that does this. All three of my kids have nick names and songs for them...and my LJ is mostly my baby book for the kids, too (I do scrapbook, but I print out stuff from LJ to write into the books).

[the-blue-fenix.livejournal.com]

I had one for my son:

Andrew is a baby
A very good friend of mine
I never understood a single word he said
And I don't let him drink wine.
Drinking wine would not be fine.

Joooooooy to the world
All the boys and girls
Joy to the babies in the deep blue sea
Joy to you and me.

There's also

I've got to change your evil diaper,
Baby,
Before I stop loving you
It's got to change
Baby
And every word that you say is 'goo.'

But that one doesn't really go anywhere.

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

Peanut, yes! Well that ultrasound did have a certain peanutty profile. [[[hug the peanut]]]

For more on children's rhymes and songs, you cannot do much better than "Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts: The Subversive Folklore of Childhood" by Josepha Sherman and T. K. F. Weisskopf, both sci-fi people with ouside interests. I'm pretty sure Jo was researching this when we all were on the GEnie BBS, a lot of familiar names from that grouping of folks in the acknowledgements.

http://www.amazon.com/Greasy-Grimy-Gopher-Guts-Storytelling/dp/0874834449/ref=sr_1_1/102-5053300-4962527?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1189560154&sr=1-1