Today is my son's first birthday, and I honestly can't believe it has been a year already. Fatherhood has been the most interesting, exciting, and terrifying experience of my life.
For this TTT I figured I would share three songs that Kaleb really likes to listen to.
The Ants Go Marching One By One
This is one of Kaleb's favourite songs, and each time it goes on he does this little dance. Usually whatever toys he was playing with get dropped the moment he hears it.
The amount of these nursery rhyme/ baby music songs I've heard in the last few months is shocking and every so often - nearly daily realistically - one of them gets stuck in my head and they're hard to shake.
5 Monkeys Jumping On The Bed
This song is basically mine and his workout song, because every time it comes on he starts jumping, but since he can't hold himself up, I have to pretty much weight-lift him and throw him in the air.
I'm not sure what weight he is now, but to be honest, I'm at a point where I don't need any kind of gym membership or exercise routine to get a workout.
The animation of a lot of these videos is very simplistic, but they're eye-catching, and for kids, they're entertaining because he seems to love them.
The Duck Song
The Duck Song is one that I'm sure everyone saw at some stage, I remember it went viral when it was first released.
It's the first song I put on for him a couple of months ago, and for the first time, he paid attention to what was on screen and seemed interested in, and danced along to.
When it first came on he looked at the screen watching the badly animated duck, as the song played out. Then he kind of looked around the room at everyone to see everyones reactions, which were positive, and then he turned back with a big smile on his face and started dancing.
This is something he started doing for most other songs moving forward, he would smile, then look for the reactions of everyone else before getting really into it and bopping.
These songs, and listening to them over the last few months have led me to believe that I'm in the wrong game. Rather than playing covers, or punk/ ska stuff, I should - and every other musician should - be making nursery rhyme songs and videos.
Each of these videos has hundreds of millions of views/ billions of views, which would be worth a lot of money.