Dancing Queen

When Mia starts crying, it typically means one of three things. She wants to eat, she needs a new diaper, or she wants the binky.

Every so often however, the big three fail to calm her down and we enter a strange beguiling world of experimental soothing techinques. On some days she likes to bounce, on others she wants to look in the mirror. It's been a process of trying anything/everything until something works, and then just going back to that to see if it was a one off anomoly or something she actually enjoys.

To that end, apparently our daughter is not one for the soothing soft toned lullaby. She likes dancing to New Order.


She will go from a full throated scream to blissful smile after the first bar of "Blue Monday" or "Bizarre Love Triangle". It's gotten to the point where at night after feeding her, changing the diaper and putting her in her PJ's, I'll turn on some dance music and swing her around the room until her eyes drop and neck gets floppy.

By any means necessary.