Rock-A-Bye, Baby.

The craziest thing just happened. I was trying to put Emma down for her nap, and she was not feeling super happy about it. She just kept crying and crying no matter which way I held her, whether she was swaddled or not-- so I started singing to her! --which I never do, I'm really not a big singer anyway, and singing to babies has always felt really awkward to me-- and she totally stopped mid-wail, closed her eyes, and was slumbering peacefully within minutes! haha, the only song I could think of was Rock-A-Bye, baby-- which is really a horrible song to sing to a baby. But I kept singing it over and over until I was finally able to also come up with "Twinkle, Twinkle" and "I'm Trying to be Like Jesus." Looks like I might need to invest in a children's song book! I know this probably sounds super obvious to you-- singing to babies? Duh, Ashton. But seriously, we didn't do a whole lot of baby singing (that I can remember) in our house growing up and so it just feels weird! But, hey! I'll keep doing it as long as it keeps working.

....puh-lease keep working.