I have always sung "You Are My Sunshine" at bedtime. Sometimes twinkle twinkle. I hope that when they are older they will have fond memories of the song.
I have always sung "You Are My Sunshine" at bedtime. Sometimes twinkle twinkle. I hope that when they are older they will have fond memories of the song.
honeydew / 7230 posts
You Are My Sunshine is our bedtime song too. We sing a lot of ABCs, too. My son has had a hard time transitioning to preschool this winter, so we sing a LOT of the "grown ups come back" song from Daniel Tiger.
kiwi / 578 posts
You are my sunshine, twinkle twinkle, Bye bye love, and the ABCs almost every night. And sometimes in thrown Wonderwall or Hello I Love You as well.
pomelo / 5573 posts
Twinkle Twinkle for both of them. When B was a baby the only songs he would fall asleep to were "Devil Knows You're Dead" by Delta Spirit or the theme song to The Monkees. With W I sing Devil Town a lot.
hostess / papaya / 10540 posts
ABCs while brushing teeth. You are my sunshine sometimes, but ABCs wins with frequency.
pear / 1648 posts
"You Are My Sunshine" since she was born. "Too Ra Loo Ra" since about 8 months. She's 2.5 and still requests these most nights
blogger / pear / 1509 posts
Hmm maybe I should learn more kids songs. I sing Hallelujah and Sweet Baby James the most. Occasionally Hush Little Baby, but they both prefer the others!
wonderful kiwi / 23653 posts
With DD2 I sing whatever I want... She's 2 months.
With DD2 I sing whatever she requests lol.
pomelo / 5298 posts
Gosh, Rock-a-bye has always been our good night song. We sing a lot of ABC', Twinkle twinkle, baa baa black sheep, wheels on the bus, itsy bitsy. But LO2, isn't letting up on Christmas she still requests Frosty the snowman, and Santa Claus is coming to town every night. I refuse, DH obliges. You can guess who puts her to sleep most nights.
grapefruit / 4361 posts
Rock a bye baby, hush little baby, amazing grace, God of wonders
honeydew / 7463 posts
Hard to say, we rotate a lot at night.
Hush Little Baby (prob the most if I had to say)
Rock a bye baby
Jesus Loves the Little Children
Jesus Loves Me
Twinkle Twinkle
apricot / 424 posts
I tried to do something different and the new Cinderella came out right when my daughter was born, so I do Lavender's Blue for her. My son mostly gets You are my Sunshine. We sing lots of songs throughout the day though like Baby Bumble Bee, ABCs, Wheels on the Bus, Ring-A-Round the Rosy, Itsy Bitsy Spider...
wonderful pear / 26210 posts
Haha, I don't sing. No one needs to hear my singing voice.
I also don't know many kids songs, and I prefer to play music.
pear / 1580 posts
At bedtime, I always sing "I've Been Waiting" by The Brilliance. I wanted a lullaby all his own that no one's ever heard of, and it's so beautiful.
Other than that, he has a pretty wide range of requests. Lately it's been a lot of "Hamilton"! LOL. He's the only one who hears me rap.
honeydew / 7504 posts
A's special bedtime song is "Sweet Child of Mine." D's is "Somewhere Over the Rainbow." I also sing "Stay Awake" for both of them - that's what my mom always sang to me and my sister.
Other than bedtime, D asks me to sing "Down By the Bay" and we have fun making up silly rhymes.
GOLD / wonderful olive / 19030 posts
DD1: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
DD2: This little light of mine or Jesus Loves Me
honeydew / 7504 posts
@Mamaof2: Yup. We rock out to GNR. Catch me in the right mood and I might even do the Axl shuffle.
eggplant / 11824 posts
I sing the same lullaby to LO that my mom sang to me - it's beyond sweet and makes my heart grow 3 sizes to hear LO singing it to her dolls and stuffies
I also sometimes sing her the lullaby from Daniel Tiger and also a song called Lavender's Blue (Dilly Dilly) - which is an old standard but is also the song in the live action Cinderella that C's mom sung and that C was singing when the prince came to their house with the glass slipper.
eggplant / 11824 posts
@RonjaL7: just saw your comment! Thought I was the only Lavender's Blue lover out there!!
persimmon / 1270 posts
hash little baby over and over and over
and sometimes apple blossom by the white stripes...
cantaloupe / 6171 posts
http://www.npr.org/event/music/320973178/walter-martin-sing-to-me-feat-karen-o Lo1 usually wants this over and over and over....
coffee bean / 43 posts
Mostly Twinkle Twinkle, Amazing Grace, Hush Little Baby and Wagon Wheel (LO loves the "heyyyy, Mama rock me" part -ha). But in the last month or so, oddly, it's been Silent Night because that's what my mom sang when we were visiting recently, and it work like a charm, seasonal inappropriateness notwithstanding!
pear / 1586 posts
The current bedtime lineup for DS is:
Walk the Line
Moon River
Twinkle Twinkle
You are my Sunshine
with occasional cameos by Rockabye Baby and Sweet Baby James.
clementine / 778 posts
Your Are My Sunshine, Sweet Caroline, Get Back Up Again, Can't Stop This Feeling (Loves The Trolls movie) are the most frequent
pomegranate / 3045 posts
@MamaG: H has still been requesting Angels We Have Heard on High
We rotate through, since my son requests certain songs. But in our rotation is:
Tomorrow's Now Today
The Riddle Song
Tender Shepherd (Peter pan nursery song)
Edelweiss
Juanita
All Through the Night
There's A Little Wheel A Turnin In My Heart
All the Pretty Little Horses
The Lion Sleeps Tonight
Baby Mine
Landslide
The Last Rose of Summer
Rockabye Baby
And the song he always asks my husband to sing (the "daddy song"), is the first verse of American Pie
apricot / 451 posts
"I Will" by the Beatles. DH & I chose it for our first dance at our wedding and the lyrics are equally sweet when being sung to our babies.
I also rotate through you are my sunshine, itsy bitsy spider, and how much is that doggy in the window.
eggplant / 11861 posts
@MamaG: Bahahha G is stuck on Rudolph too....lol
DD 2 yrs mostly what she requests...we also have many made up songs!
DS 4 months I sing "We love you AJ" to the tune of We love you Conrad from Bye Bye Birdie!!
No clue how that came to be....lol
pear / 1521 posts
For bedtime we do what she calls her "rock song" which is brahms lullaby but with words I made up for her.
During the day I get tons of requests, #1 is wheels on the bus (she likes to request different lines and I make a lot up), ABCs (she seems to prefer when I do them in French though ), Hello body (hello song from music together), Elsa Go go (let it go), twinkle twinkle, row row boat, ba ba (black sheep). She loves music!
pomegranate / 3045 posts
Just realized you hadn't specified lullaby/nighttime songs. Ha. Mine above are all of our bedtime songs. During the day, we mainly sing Music Together songs, ABC, Wheels on the Bus, Raffi songs, etc.
pear / 1642 posts
We have along list of bedtime songs in rotation, but are currently in a relapse of Frozen fever. So let it go and "Anna's song" are requested nightly. I also always sing a lullaby I made up for her and Hushabye Mountain from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang- I was obsessed with that song as a kid and swore I would sing it to my babies when I grew up, so here I am. I do really hope they remember the song as they get older.
cantaloupe / 6131 posts
Both boys get Jesus Loves Me twice and then the Doxology before prayers and bed.
Currently DS1 loves ABCs, Twinkle Twinkle, Itsy Bitsy, Are You Sleeping Brother John, Row Row Row, Down in My Heart, and If You're Happy. And a bunch of songs from the Wiggles.
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