I Miss The Hairbrush Song

O.K.  Just crossed one more thing off of my list.  Dimples’ Christmas c.d. is finally finished.

Yes, I know it’s the day after Easter.

And, no, I am not starting early on this year’s Christmas list.  Do you not know me at all by now?

Allow me to explain.

Every year, since she turned 1 in 2002, Dimples has received a carefully compiled c.d. of special songs for Christmas.  Each song somehow reminds me of her.  They are generally a mix of “kid” songs and “grownup” songs.  Here is the playlist from the first year:  I Hope You Dance, You Are So Beautiful, Over the Rainbow, Because You Loved Me, You & Me Against the World, Say Goodnight, Tomorrow, Wonderful World.

Pretty sappy, huh?

Over the years, the songs have morphed a bit to try to incorporate Dimples’ actual taste in music.  Miss Independent and The Hairbrush Song (from Veggie Tales) debuted in 2005.  Unwritten by Natasha Bedingfield made the 2006 cut.  In 2007, Trans-Siberian orchestra just HAD to be included.

2009 is where things went awry.  First of all, I included Boom Boom Pow by the BlackEyed Peas, not realizing I had downloaded the explicit version.  Dimples informed me that there was a bad word on her Christmas c.d.  We had the talk about how words aren’t bad; it’s just how and where you use them.  Since her name isn’t Fergie or Will.I.am, and she does not often perform on stage in front of millions of people, Dimples seemed to accept that her life does not often provide the appropriate context for that kind of language.

The problem was that Dimples decided that she liked that c.d. so much, she played it for a year. Every day.  And every night.  Because she cannot go to sleep unless her c.d. player is on.  And no other c.d. would do.

Eager to transition to a new c.d. that played anything, ANYTHING, other than Boom Boom Pow, I quickly burned a new c.d. for Christmas 2010.  It included what I thought were some great hits in the 8th year of Dimples – Movie Loves a Screen, Human, You Found Me, …

Dimples tried it for one night, and declared that there was NO WAY she was going to sleep with that c.d. on.  There were too many slow songs, for one thing (according to her), and I forget what her other equally unreasonable reasons were.

It is amazing, after two years of listening to the same ten songs every day and every night, how it finally becomes white noise in your environment.  Either that, or I went insane and I haven’t figured it out yet.  Now that I think about it, that could explain why we got Wonderbutt, the bulldog puppy, in December 0f 2010…

Anyway, this past Christmas, I was in no rush to carry on the c.d. tradition based on the lack of customer appreciation the preceding year.

About the end of January, Dimples said, “Hey!  Where’s my Christmas c.d.?”

I gave her what I imagine to be my You’re Kidding look.

Fergie learned the You've Got to Be Kidding Look from me. photo credit: nicogenin via photopin cc

Every month since then, about once a week, Dimples has asked where her c.d. is.  Since it is now April, I’m thinking she might actually be serious.  So, I made her a new c.d. on Easter Day.  It still had the title, “Merry Christmas!”, and the year, 2011.  She deemed the song choices, “very good”.

Last night, as I was reading to her before bed, Dimples interrupted to say, “I’m going to listen to the old c.d. one last time.”

Boom Boom Pow right to the kisser.

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