Day Fifty-One

For as much as Alexis has always been the dancer of the house, Mila has always been the singer. I'm not saying she's good at it, by the way. She's delightful, is what she is. It doesn't matter if she can hold a tune because everything sounds fantastic when you're a tiny human singing at the top of your lungs.

Which she does, by the way. Nearly always. I used to manage to catch it on camera a lot, but now she refuses to leave evidence. It's fine. Sometimes I sneaky get video.

While Mila's singing is delightful in every way, it's her song choices that make everything perfect. She sings a lot of Spice Girls, for example. Be a prude about it if you want, but Mila singing, "If you wanna be my lover, you gotta be my friend" truly is the best. It's just so darn cute and wholesome and all of that. She also sings a lot of Britney Spears, Never Ending Story (from Stranger Things Season 3), and old school hip hop. No, really, she knows every word to Whoomp There It Is and Hypnotize by Notorius B.I.G.

It's possible that the Big Kid is obsessed with "oldies" and is spreading that obsession.

Mila knows some more recent music as well. She can sing all the words to Havana by Rihanna, Break My Heart by Dua Lupa, and the girl can put down some Billie Eillish. That big sister thing, y'know?

The song that makes me insane, though, is Barbie Girl. She sings it A LOT, in part because she has changed the lyrics to, "Come on Barbie, let's go potty!"

Obviously, she sings it every time she goes to the bathroom. The only thing is that she lets the true lyrics seep into whatever it is that she's doing in there because if you go in the bathroom after Mila, you will find evidence of a party. I never did get an explanation for why there was soap on the ceiling yesterday ...

Mostly, though, the song frustrates me because it reminds me of the endless supply of Barbie content Mila has discovered on Netflix. If you've never seen one of the cartoons, DON'T. I like you too much to let you put yourself through that sort of hell. Every Barbie cartoon is a giant pile of animated trash. It's filled with smart-ass teen girls acting like jerks and uuuuugh, Mila keeps repeating what they say. It's gotten so bad that I blocked it from Mila's view.

The thing that broke me?

"Whatevs."

I told Mila I liked when she sings out loud and she replied, "Whatevs."

I hope you're happy, Barbie cartoon creators. You're officially known in my house as the people who taught my kindergartener to be a smartass.

Comments

[Denise]

It's official, Mila should live with us!

The Barbie Song is the song we use to call the dogs to go outside to pee... Come on puppies, let's go pottyyyyyy. It's a puppy girl in a puppy worldddddd.

And, "whatevs" is my fave thing to say!