I’ve always wondered if, as a parent, I’d be able to sing songs to my kid like my mom did. She would always sing to us when we were little and perform at class parties with her guitar. I don’t exactly have a good voice, nor do I play the guitar, so I seriously worried that my kid was going to be deprived of this essential childhood ingredient. But then I got Jack. And granted he is not a human baby, he is still my baby. And though I still haven’t developed any amazing vocal skills, nor will I be performing at any dog parks soon, I have realized that singing comes naturally (even if it is bad) when you love your little one.

I put together a few “original tracks” that I’ve written for the little guy. They’ll be available on iTunes shortly. You can check out the sweet lyrics for now.

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© Jacky Bear (to the tune of Scooby Doo)

Jacky Jacky Bear, Jacky Bear

He’s a Jacky Jacky Jacky Bear

He’s a Jacky Bear, He’s a Jacky Bear

He’s a Jacky Jacky Jacky Bear

(repeat)

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© Puppy Guy (sung in the key of D)*

You’re the puppy guy and I’m the daddy guy

You’re the puppy guy and I’m the daddy guy

and she’s the mommy guy

(repeat)

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He’s a Bear

Jacky Bear

He’s a bear

He’s a  little bitty bear

(chorus)

He’s a bear, he’s a bear

He’s a little bitty bear

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© The Potty Song

Do the poopoo handstand!

It’s the poopoo handstand!

(repeat energetically)

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*I’m kidding. All keys are welcome!

A few days ago, I was poking around online and found myself at their website. Fast forward 2 hours later and I was totally hooked on their music. They’re awesome, and it will be so fun to hopefully see these guys take off in the music industry. Check out their single, Addicted, below!

True Life: I still have this

In keeping with our 90′s throwback day, I thought I’d share a pretty impressive discovery I made today. So, we were all about as obsessed with the Backstreet Boys as we are about Edward Cullen, right? Of course. I do believe I was around 11 years old when the BSB came on the scene and I was smitten right from the beginning. I, too, was in love with Brian Litrell but was fearful in admitting to it since my older, and much cooler sister had already called dibs on him. Grr. So I settled to publicly crush on Nick Carter, (hey, he’s much better than the 2 train wrecks that were Chris and Howie, ick), while still secretly declaring my love for Brian.

Has he even hit puberty at this point?

Anywho, while I was deep cleaning my apartment today, I found myself humming a little tune that just happened to pop into my head after reading my sister’s post about sexy boy bands. I then realized that I was dancing around the apartment using my broom as a microphone and that’s when I figured out what song I was humming, “I Want it That Way” by the BSB. Wow. I hadn’t thought of or heard this song in ages and all of a sudden it’s pulled up from the depths of my memories. What scared me even more…..I remembered all of the words. Every single word, and that includes all of the sweet melodious riffs sung by AJ, the beautiful choruses sung by my beloved Brian, and all of the “Oooooh, girls” added in by the no-talent Howie. This was amazing!

So I decided to google all of the albums ever released by the BSB, just to see how many of their songs I could actually remember the words to. Well, 2 hours and one extremely clean apartment later, I had swept, dusted and vacuumed my way through 3 whole BSB albums, singing and remembering every song. That’s sick. But so fun!

True story: My hubby went to a BSB concert when he was 11 and hated every minute of it, haha. But the funny thing is, I was at that same BSB concert too! We could have met at a BSB concert. But we didn’t.

True story again: I was sitting in class during my senior year and my professor decided to try an experiment. He asked one of the girls in class to use her desk as a drum and tap out the beat to a song and then asked us if we knew what song she was tapping. After she got through the chorus, my hand immediately shot in the air, “That’s a Backstreet Boys song!” Luckily, I was right and the girl also shouted back, “Yes!” The professor wanted to prove a point about how certain songs stick with us. Boy was he right.