Annalie and I have watched this superfun video three times in a row. Now I’m off to google Kristin Andreassen. (via scrumdilly-do!)

You’ve heard Annalie’s rendition of “Good Morning Valtimore”—now you can hear her version of “Hairspray”! The lines she’s (sort of) singing in this clip are:

What gives a girl
Power and punch?
Is it charm, is it poise?
No it’s hairspray…

As a tiny bonus you get to hear me sing too, and meet Annalie’s newest baby, which she named after one of her friends. Most of her babies are named after her friends.

Annalie singing “Hairspray” from bethany actually on Vimeo.

(In case you’re scratching your head over the title of this post, the character who sings this song in the movie musical is named Corny Collins.)

My mom and I took Annalie with us to see Hairspray at the theater a few months ago, and she loved the upbeat dancing and music, though she got bored with the story quickly. I got the soundtrack, and after we listened to it once in the minivan on our road trip to Omaha last summer, I decided that maybe I didn’t want my 3.5-year-old listening to some of the lyrics again and again lest she ask me to explain what “the flasher who lives next door” is or start talking about “Negro Day” (the movie is partially about civil rights in the early 60s). I decided we’d just take that one out of the CD player when Annalie was in the van.

Except Annalie LOVED the soundtrack and started asking for it by name. She especially enjoyed the big opening number that Tracy Turnblad sings, “Good Morning Baltimore”. Here is her rendition!

“Good Morning, ‘Valtimore’” & play-dough from bethany actually on Vimeo.