Giraffes (and elephants)

Sometime soon after Boogins came home from the hospital, she was crying (as all babies tend to do) and Brian (the hubby and author of www.freshworms.blogspot.com) was attempting to soothe her. I'm not entirely sure how he stumbled across the giraffe song (http://www.weebls-stuff.com/songs/giraffe/), but thank the Lord that he did! So while the song gets completely annoying and after about the 50th time you'd almost prefer to shoot yourself to hear the song again, it has been the sole solace to Boogins. No matter the reason for crying, this song seems to instantaneously stop all noise. Until she starts to giggle like Candace from Phineas & Ferb. But as that's an amusing, happy noise, we don't mind it so much. After a year of this diddy, it appears that even just clicking on the link and showing her the "buffering video" on the computer she settles down, for she KNOWS what's about to come out of the speakers! "There was a giraffe in my loft...I didn't invite it!" Over and over.

Well, the song isn't enough. For the crying, yes. However, Boogins has acquired many a giraffe in the year. She has a stuffed giraffe, giraffe rattle, giraffe towel, giraffe Halloween costume (gosh darn it she was ADORABLE!), etc.Daddy even wanted to paint the giraffe (the one from the song) on her walls in her bedroom. (as well as put a sign at the bottom of the garage/loft stairs that says "No Giraffes Plz. KThxBye") I'm all for it. Except...

So, here comes Annabelle. Poor little Duckins. Without any say in the matter, she has been relegated to liking elephants. For the giraffe brings his "elephant friends with him". Now, it doesn't appear that Annabelle has the same affinity to the song as Boogins does. However, I'm still on board with painting the giraffe and his elephant friends in their room. And in fact, I have gotten Annabelle a stuffed elephant and elephant rattle. Let's face it...elephants are cute too! (Boogins was almost, and I do repeat almost, as fascinated with the elephant at the zoo as she was with the giraffes) I'm kind of happy to report that this seems to be a theme of sorts anyway. At Babies-R-Us today, I saw quite a lot of giraffe/elephant bedding! Mostly in blue & green and slightly looking boy themed, but there was one pink/purple giraffe/elephant set, so girls can be all about it too. Then again, the babies' room will be done in light blue, green, white and brown, so it'd all work anyway! I found a cute collapsible box in green with a giraffe on it and I grabbed a plain blue one. I'm hoping that someone I know (be it me, the hubby or the graphic designer sister) can create an elephant head in the same manner as the giraffe, we can print it on iron-on transfer and put it on the blue box. I also got some cute ideas for lamp shades and light switch plates.

Anyway, that being said, I'm hopeful that Duckins will grow to love elephants the way Boogins loves giraffes. Either that or her memoir will be titled "Trampled by Elephants - How My Older Sister Always Got Her Way"