{"id":253,"date":"2005-07-25T22:29:22","date_gmt":"2005-07-26T04:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/?p=254"},"modified":"2005-07-25T22:29:22","modified_gmt":"2005-07-26T04:29:22","slug":"zip-a-dee-doo-dah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/amberandgreg\/?p=253","title":{"rendered":"Zip-a-dee-doo-dah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On my way to pick up Greg from work, Adrianna started fussing.  Since I was driving, I couldn&#8217;t easily calm her down since her carseat is located in the back seat.  So I started singing.  I began with <em>Zip-a-dee-doo-dah<\/em>, as she usually enjoys when I sing that to her.  Sure enough, as soon as I started singing it to her, she quieted down.  So I sang different songs to her the rest of the way.<\/p>\n<p>One thing about becoming a new parent is that you all of a sudden realize that you need to learn (or relearn) a slew of songs for children.  I have been racking my brain for all those childhood songs that I learned so that I can sing them to Adrianna.  Other than <em>Zip-a-dee-doo-dah<\/em>, there are a few others that she seems to like.  One of them is a song I like to call <em>Clean and Dry<\/em>.  Here are the lyrics, sung to the tune of <em>Deep and Wide<\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Clean and Dry.<br \/>\nClean and Dry,  Adrianna&#8217;s diaper&#8217;s clean and dry.<br \/>\nClean and Dry.<br \/>\nClean and Dry, Adrianna&#8217;s diaper&#8217;s clean and dry!\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One of my favorite things to do is insert her name into songs whenever possible.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Adrianna, she is my sunshine.<br \/>\nShe makes me happy, when skies are grey.<br \/>\nYou&#8217;ll never know dear, how much I love you.<br \/>\nPlease don&#8217;t take my sunshine away.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, you get the drift.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On my way to pick up Greg from work, Adrianna started fussing. Since I was driving, I couldn&#8217;t easily calm her down since her carseat is located in the back seat. So I started singing. I began with Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, as she usually enjoys when I sing that to her. Sure enough, as soon as I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adrianna","category-our-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/amberandgreg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/amberandgreg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/amberandgreg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/amberandgreg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/amberandgreg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/amberandgreg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/amberandgreg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/amberandgreg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noreimerreason.com\/amberandgreg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}