January 12, 2008

Get Out Your Umbrellas: It's a Shower!

One of the busiest of mommybloggers out there is about to get a whole busier. As in “more kids than parents" busier. And every new mama—even a three-time winner like Julie—deserves a celebration.

Want to join us? Grab your yellow slicker and:

1. Write a post about raising, rearing, chasing, or enjoying little boys. Have advice on protecting yourself and your furniture from pee geysers, graffiti on your wallpaper, or junior bookshelf-climbing competitions? Or words of encouragement about how devoted little guys are to their moms? Spill it—Julie needs to know! 

2. Share your favorite B-O-Y song!  Just send the song title and artist to motherbumper@mac.com and we’ll set up a downloadable playlist for Julie’s iPod (and yours too) —to keep her company during those long sleepless nights when she’ll be snoozing peacefully while Kyle rocks the babe back to sleep. (Extra points for those of you who send something other than "Let's Hear it for the Boys!")

3. Want to chip in for a gift for the little boy blue? Kristen’s rounding up a collection via paypal at coolmompicks@gmail.com.

4. Grab a button and spread the word starting Monday, 1/21. On that date we’ll publish the playlist and link up all your posts.

Party favor: We would never send you home empty-handed! We’ll send a randomly chosen participant an iPod Shuffle plus a fantabulous Fadiddle shirt of your very own (your choice) —put up a button and send your link to coolmompicks@gmail.com by midnight EST on 1/21. Let’s hear it for the (baby) boy!

January 10, 2008

The Shower Guests

And the winner is... Cheese Party's Ham & Cheese (thanks to our friendly robots at random.org).

16 Songs About a Boy (more music to download!)

About a Boy

About Boys

Action Man

Aw... His First Pee Fountain

Beautiful Boys

Because I Love a Shower That I Can Wear My Pajamas To

Bouncing Baby Boy!

Oh Boy

Boy Oh Boy

Boy Oh Boy Do I Love Boys

Boy oh Boy oh Boy

Boys

Boys and Their Toys

Boys Rule (YOUR LIFE)

Boys Will Be Boys

Cars, Trains, and Go Go Go

Cheaper Than Therapy (I'm too lazy to write her fantastically long title) -- heh

Comfort Amidst Chaos

Don't Forget the Balls

Escape from Sodorville (Great book suggestions!)

Fussy Welcomes Julie to the World of Boys

Ham & Cheese

Having a Boy?

Here's to Brother for Goosie & Mousie

Here's to the Good Old Twig & Berries

Holy Mothergoosemouse

In Honor of Julie & Little Boys Too

It's a Boy!

It's a Virtual Baby Shower!

It's About More Than Uncle Dick and the Twins

Let's Hear it For the Boy

Let's Hear it For the Boys

Little Boy Love

Of Winners & Weiners

Oh Boy!

Oh Brother!

Playing Hockey with Rats

Please One More Thing. One More.

Raising a Little Boy. Today.

Snakes and Snails and Puppy Dog Tails

So You're Having a Boy

Take Cover, Mothergoosemouse

Take Cover! Mothergoosemouse is Having a Boy

Testosterone? Where?

Three is a Magic Number

Top Ten Tips for Raising a Boy

Where's Your Umbrella? It's Shower Time!

Whoever Thought Raising Boys Would Be So Great?

Yo Julie! Surprise!

Join the Cool Mom Picks newsletter and you'll get a chance to win Julie's fantabulous shower bag for yourself. And make sure you have the button code up on your site so you're entered in the prize drawing. We're anal like that.

The Ultimate Boy Song Play Lists

A huge thanks to motherbumper for putting together these playlists. If you've got more suggestions, drop her an email.

The response for song requests has been so overwhelming that not one playlist but FOUR playlists have been put together. 

For the past few days I've been searching for, listening to, and dancing around with Bumper to songs tinged blue, packed with boys, and sprinkled with rain references.  It's been an excellent form of exercise.

On the sidebar are the songs requested so far.  Some of the tunes I haven't been able to find or the copy was poor quality or the worst: finding out the song is a home recorded cover.  It happened four times with Concrete Blonde's Joey and can I just say "ouch"? If you have a link to any of the missing songs and don't mind sharing, send it my way and I can add it to the jukebox - just like that.  Isn't the internet magical?

But without further ado, the inspiration for this shower:

Take cover, grab an umbrella Mothergoosemouse and groove on down - or as least as much as Baby Boy will allow...


Hey, did someone mention "boy"?  Because Boy, Oh Boy did the boy-themed songs come raining down (groan):


Classic baby songs also came flooding in:


And let's not forget the lullabies - or as I like to call them "music to not fall asleep by because baby does not know the meaning or importance of sleep" kind of songs


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The Big Bad Boy Playlist

  • Here's What We've Got So Far:

    Requested Songs On Playlists:
    A Boy Named Sue - Johnny Cash
    A Country Boy Can Survive - Hank Williams Jr.
    Angel Baby - Dean Martin
    A Toast to Men - Wila Ford
    Baby Mine - Alison krause
    Bad Boys (aka the Cops song) - Inner Circle
    Batman - TV soundtrack
    Be My Baby - The Ronnettes
    Beautiful Boy - John Lennon
    Blue (Da Ba Dee) - Eiffel 65
    Boats & Birds - Gregory and the Hawk
    Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy - Bette Midler
    Boy - Blake Shelton
    Boy Is Mine - Brandy and Monica
    Boys Don't Cry - The Cure
    Boys of Summer - Don Henley
    Broken Boy Soldier - The Raconteurs
    Can't Take My Eyes Off of You - Frankie Valli
    Circle Game - Joni Mitchell
    Cowboy - Kid Rock
    Dream - Roy Orbison
    Dream a Little Dream of Me - Mama Cass
    Father's son - Tori Amos
    Food, Glorious Food - Oliver soundtrack
    Godspeed (Sweet Dreams) - Dixie Chicks
    Here comes the rain again - Eurythmics
    Here Comes the Sun - The Beatles
    Hey Boy, Hey Girl - The Chemical Brothers
    I Got You Babe - Sonny & Cher
    I Know What Boys Like - The Waitresses
    I Love You Up to the Moon - Kim Hill
    I Wanna Be a Cowboy - Boys Don't Cry
    In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning - Frank Sinatra
    It's Raining Men - Weather Girls
    Jeremy - Pearl Jam
    Joey - Concrete Blonde
    Johnny B. Good - Chuck Berry
    Lullaby (Goodnight My Angel) - Billy Joel
    My Moon My Man - Feist
    Nature Boy - Nat King Cole
    Oh Boy - Buddy Holly
    Play That Funky Music - Wild Cherry
    Rough Boy - ZZ Top
    Simple Man - Lynyrd Skynyrd
    Sk8er Boi - Avril Lavigne
    Smokin' in the Boys Room - Motley Crue
    Something to Talk About - Badly Drawn Boy
    Spaceboy - The Smashing Pumpkins
    Stay up Late - Talking Heads
    Still Fighting It - Ben Folds
    Superman - Five for Fighting
    Tarzan Boy - Baltimora
    Thank God I'm a Country Boy - John Denver
    The Boys are Back in Town - Thin Lizzy
    The Magic Number - De La Soul
    The one who Knows - Dar Williams
    The Only Living Boy in NY - Simon and Garfunkel
    This Magic Moment - The Drifters
    Requested Songs Not Found Yet: (if you have access to a good quality mp3, send motherbumper the link - thanks!)
    A Boy's Best Friend - White Stripes
    Baby Mine - Bonnie Raitt
    Boy - Book of Love
    Boyfriend's Back - The Angels
    Boy From Tupelo - Emmylou Harris
    Boy in the Box - Corey Hart
    Boy Inside the Man - Tom Cochrane
    Boy Like Me, A Girl Like You - Elvis Presley
    Boy Like You - Trick Pony
    Boy or a Girl - Imperial Drag
    Boys - Britney Spears
    Boys - Ringo Starr
    Boys will be Boys - The Backstreet Boys
    Brothers and Sisters - Ziggy Marley
    Coin operated boy - The Dresden Dolls
    I am Superman - REM
    I Want To Be The Boy To Warm Your Mother's Heart - White Stripes
    I'm still a guy - Brad Paisley
    Indian Boy - Paul Pena
    Into the Heart - U2
    It's the end of the world as we know it - REM
    Let's Hear it for the Boy - Denise Williams
    Loverboy - Mariah Carey
    Loves me like a rock - Paul Simon
    Me and Julio Down By the School Yard - Paul Simon
    music for boys - petshop boys
    My Brother Did It - Justin Roberts
    My Milkshake Brings all the Boys to the Yard - Kelis
    No Sleep Till Brooklyn - Beastie Boys
    One's on the Way - Loretta Lynn
    Po' Boy - Bob Dylan
    Pony Boy - Bruce Springsteen
    Pretty Boy Floyd - Bob Dylan
    Pretty Boys - Veruca Salt
    Real Men - Tori Amos
    Stand Up Guy - Mark Knopfler
    Stories for Boys - U2
    Strollertown - Jonathan Coulton
    The boy who never cried - Steve Earle
    The Jones Boy - The Mills Brothers
    The Perfect Fan - The Backstreet Boys
    The Rain - Missy Elliott
    Winin' Boy Blues - Leon Redbone
    You are the Sunshine of my LIfe - Stevie Wonder
    You're the Love of My Life - Carly Simon