Under Pressure

Lately, we've been having to distract Troy with music videos to get him to eat. The old method of reading him a book or playing with his toys wasn't working anymore. I guess even a baby has his limits on how many times he can be entertained by "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star." The upside to the videos is that we have an inexhaustible number of options. The downside is that he's become technology-obsessed. Every time he sees the iPad, he goes nuts until we put a video on for him, and then he's sucked into the hypnotic trance of the tractor beam. For now, we are doing our best to limit him and doing whatever we can to get him to eat.

One of his favorite videos is the song Under Pressure from Happy Feet 2. At the start of the video, Bryan the Beachmaster is complaining to Mumbles that there is no way that dancing around on the ice is going to make a huge piece of ice break off. The other elephant seals start arguing with Bryan to stop complaining and just try it. And suddenly, Erik the baby penguin starts singing, "na-nuh-nuh-na-na-nuh-nuh," the opening notes to Under Pressure. The other animals slowly start adding their own voice to the song, until you have a beautiful a cappella version of the song. Oh and all the while, Bryan and the other elephant seals are providing the bass beat by slamming their bodies into the ice (so maybe there are instruments after all).

We have watched this video so many times, that Troy has started to sing "na-nuh-nuh-na-na-nuh-nuh" as he walks around the house. When my wife and I chime in with him, he gets a big grin on his face. At least for now, we all still enjoy the song, and it gets us singing together...so win-win.