Nothing else works?
Put the baby on his changing table and get out the rhythmic shaker-egg.
Do the shaker-egg dance while singing gibberish that sounds like space-alien talk while making exaggerated faces.
The fussy baby will begin to smile and laugh.
Hold the shaker-egg in his left hand and shake it while singing and sort of dancing in place with him.
Then alternate hands.
This is a big hit.
Father’s Day – 6/15/08: In the Xanthic Nursery this evening, Caution-Lady shot some Pentax Optio WR 3.2 video of my shaker-egg dance demonstration. Little ’76 was, for the most part, more interested in CL and the camera than in my buffoonery. Maybe better video another time when we get a dedicated video camera.
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I don’t really understand these movements. Can’t you post a video?
It’s funny you should ask – I’ve been looking online at video cameras these past three days trying to decide which one to buy. Maybe I’ll see if I can get my wife to shoot some video with the Pentax today. The baby’s pretty cool, but my own terpsichorean efforts evidence a functional limitation in the areas of spatial relations, as well as motor skills fine and gross.
The way you make it sound, it must probably look like a Tati scene. Can’t wait to see it!
Caution-Lady has agree to shoot some digital camera video today. Already today I’ve been practicing my space-alien chatter.
You can see the video linked above. The audio is not good, and my space-alien chatter is not all I had hoped for. Still, for a sweaty guy who overate at a Chinese buffet with the extended family after lunch this afternoon, my gibberish motion and sound was not as bad as it might have been. And I didn’t scare little ’76.
Very nice!!!
The baby looks a littlebit distracted by the camera, but I can only say: ‘Very well danced!!!’.