"Rainbows."

This is her nightly request from the Mommy jukebox.

Since Ellie was a baby I have sang to her The Rainbow Connection at bedtime, as well as Bubbly, Break My Stride, Home Sweet Home and Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer (her pick not mine)  Odd selection I know, but it's what pops into your head in the middle of the night I guess.

So every night, she snuggles in, turns to her left side with Lalee tight to her body, asks for her cup, and then requests, "Rainbows Mommy," and begins the long journey to sleep.

What has backfired on me is that she knows every word to the song, so when I notice she is finally drifting off to sleep, I switch to Bubbly or Home Sweet Home...she knows the words to those as well, but she's less likely to belt that out into the night air.

So last night she asked me, "who sings it?"  [ I assume she is trying to replace Myrle Streep as her favorite rock band. ]  I told her a frog.  I was going to say Karen Carpenter, but I have this deep desire for her to fall hopelessly in love with The Muppet Movie so that we can watch it over and over again.  So I explained it sung by a frog in a swamp with a banjo that catches flies with his tongue...I left out the Harry Krishnah part. 

Ellie latches on to things and does not ever let go.  She talked about the frog for another twenty minutes.  He was green.  He had a banjo (not that she knows what that is) She did the tongue thing.  Then she told me he dies (that's Ellie for 'dives') and swims in the water. 

"No," I said, "He starts on a Schwimm, and then rides around in a Studebaker."

Well that conversation just too a weird turn, didn't it?

She got quiet after that...I think her little mind was trying to remember the word Studebaker.


**This morning we introduced her to Kermit the Frog and let her watch him sing her favorite bedtime song before shipping her off to Grandma's  She was quite happy.