I can't help it

I make cute people.

I hauled Baby V along with Chebbles and Granddad over to our local Clix studio on Saturday. This involved multiple nursing sessions, one stoic grandfather, and a tantruming toddler who could not be coerced into participating. Oh, and a little white hair barrette that sat backwards within the lush locks of my second-born child.

Due to Chebbles' mood, we had to leave the photo studio in a hurry, but not before having a crazy meeting with their toilet, which involved raisin-inspired poop and about 5,000 baby wipes. But Baby V's cuteness PREVAILED, wouldn't you say?

In other news, I need some advice from my more musical readers as to what to do with Chebbles' bizarre musical abilities. To whit...

You know how there is a little chime when you turn on the car, which is ostensibly meant to remind the driver to put on her seat belt? (Too bad it doesn't remind her to fasten her child's seatbelt, as in my postpartum haze I recently drove a half-mile before realizing Chebbles remained in her carseat only because she chose to...) But anyway, you know that chime? When I turned the car on today, Chebbles toned along with it -- singing that exact tone, then a second tone, about a third lower than the Toyota Camry chime.

She kept singing these precise two tones as we drove down the road (belted in, rest assured), over and over. Then she said, "Mama, can you play the song that does that?"

"Chebbles, what song are you talking about?"

And then she proceeded to sing the two tones repeatedly and more insistently. "Mama, the song that does that."

"What are the WORDS to the song?" I said.

"No words, Mama, it's the overshirt."

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"Holy crap, Chebs, do you mean the overture to 'South Pacific?'"

So I turned on the CD and put it on Track 1, and lo and behold, the second and third initial notes of the "South Pacific" overture are precisely that of the Toyota Camry's seat belt reminder system.

What... the... heck.


(For those of you who are familiar with "South Pacific," I'll explain this so you might hear the same tones in your own Toyotas. The overture starts with "Bali Hai" and it's the second and third notes, the "-li Hai" that Chebbles correctly identified as matching with the car's seat belt reminder chime.)