I was reminded this weekend while going through our music library that Elton John's "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" was playing on the radio when my mother-in-law brought my wife home from the hospital after she was born. This is pretty cool on several levels, one of which is the fact that they are from Kansas and the whole Wizard of Oz, yellow brick road thing. Based on this fact, I started to think about the songs that were playing when we brought our kids home - Dude and Dudette for the sake of this blog.
Ah…yes, of course…nothing was playing. The radio was off, no talking. I needed to drive and be able to hear Dude and Dudette breath - I was a nervous wreck. But, for the sake of having a great story to tell our kids, I have decided to tell them that the following songs were playing on the radio when we brought them home:
Dude: When we were driving you home for the first time from the hospital after you were born, we all bounced and clapped to the rhythm and rhymes of 2pac's "How Do You Want It?" It was perfect. The chorus really hit the nail on the head as 2pac unleashed "Comin up in the cash game, livin in the fast lane; I'm for real".
Dudette: When you were in the car on the way home for the first time after your birth we turned on the radio and the most perfect song was on. We all sang along to Justin Timberlake's "Sexy Back". What made this special was not the fact that Dudette was the families' first granddaughter…no no…what made this the perfect song for that day was the fact that I realized that we had a daughter that was large and in charge, and just as JT sang "Look at those hips, go 'head be gone with it" that it was pretty much impossible to look at or find Duddette's hips since she was really round and looked like the Michelin Man on a much smaller scale. Hence her name - Baby Chunk.
And so in closing…The reality is the radio was not on - but since I blogged about it, the truth is now that 2pac and JT made the ride from the hospital bearable.
PTFP: Today I begin yoga.
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