What's in a Lullaby?
We have a sleep routine for all of our kids. When they are babies, we "set the stage for sleep success" by swaddling them, darkening the room, and turning on a fan for white noise. Growing up both of my parents always had a special song they sang to me when tucking me in at night. When Kye was born, I wanted to continue on that tradition and have a special song to sing to him. As a baby, I will sing the song during the time that I am swaddling them and getting their room ready for sleep time. Once they are older, I sing my song to them as I tuck them in for sleep. I am not a great singer. At all. I was actually in chorus all through middle school and won the award for "best diction." Since I couldn't sing I would participate by making the letter sounds that often aren't pronounced clearly enough during choral performances. The "d," "t," "ch," etc were all clearer thanks to me and my mad diction skills haha! Neither o...
