I am proud to say that my children are developing delightfully eclectic taste in music. They certainly enjoy children’s music, of course.  We sing “Wheels on the Bus” pretty much every single night at bedtime, and they like their Music Together CDs.  Slightly more enjoyable to me (though maybe not the 45th time in a row) is the Barenaked Ladies’ album, Snacktime.  As I’ve mentioned before, Rebecca can sing along with about 75% of the album. It’s impressive.

On the list of odder favorites is a version of “I Am the Pirate King” from Pirates of Penzance.  I frigging love hearing a toddler singing “it is, it is a glorious thing to be the pirate king,” and she requests it OVER and OVER.  The newest addition is their first Beatles tune.  They’re positively nuts for “Yellow Submarine.”  As with anything they fixate on, they just want to hear it on repeat.

They love it so much that yesterday, I had to go get all stern with Daniel at naptime because he’d been shouting the song as loud as he could for nearly 25 minutes.

Tonight, they requested it at bedtime (they also sometimes request Queen’s “Bicycle Race,” don’t even ask…).  Apparently I did not start singing it in a timely enough fashion, because Daniel started belting it on his own.  Blessedly, the video camera was already upstairs and had just barely enough charge for me to capture it. The lighting stinks, but all parents know what a miracle it was that he didn’t immediately stop singing the moment I went to grab the camera.  So I’ll take it.

Enjoy.

Yellow Submarine from Goddess in Progress on Vimeo.

I have to say, I am loving my new iPhone.  Especially the fact that it can take (pretty darn decent) video.  It allows me to so easily capture little moments while we’re out and about, since I just don’t carry my camcorder around  day-to-day.

Rebecca, in particular, has started specifically instructing me to take her picture. “Mommy, take a picture of Becca eating her snack!” Uh, ok! If I’m honest, I suspect it’s due in part to a desire for attention (and… ahem… for me to stop checking my damn email).  But whatever the motivation, I’m happy to oblige.

Yesterday, she was all about singing songs for me.  She loves to sing, and it tickles me to no end to hear her singing to herself in the backseat of the car.  Sometimes she likes the applause when it’s done, sometimes she’s just doing it for her own amusement.

Enjoy!

The other day at the lunch table, both kids were singing up a storm.  I grabbed my video camera, but feared the usual reaction of clamming up and stopping whatever cuteness they were doing as soon as I turned it on.  And then I discovered the solution.

Turn the screen around.

All of a sudden, they love performing and seeing themselves!  It was a big hit.  So, today, I give you number one in a trifecta of music videos (or is it a triptych? Lord, I don’t know. Point is, there are three).  Up first: Daniel.

Daniel’s ABCs and 123s from Goddess in Progress on Vimeo.