Anita's Dance Party

We had such a fun and perfect time celebrating A.O.K's 2nd bday. It all started after she woke up from her afternoon nap and I had the house decorated and her presents out. One of her presents was a bean bag which she immediately jumped on and giggled. Then we had popcorn and licorice (her favorite snack) while opening the rest of her presents. For dinner, I made her favorite meal of pizza and we had her absolute favorite treat, ice cream, for dessert. We ate all of this picnic style in our bed, which is her favorite place to be, while watching Fantastic Mr. Fox. Which is fantastic, of course, and she adored it. She was laughing and excited and dancing.

While opening her presents we played a compilation of Anita songs. We started a file when she was born of songs that we noticed she seemed to react to or particularly enjoy. Obviously, the list is heavily influenced by my hubby and I since she is at this point only exposed to the music we listen to (and in my case it is pretty repetitive since I definitely listen to my favorites a lot.) But she loved hearing all of her favorite tunes, one after the other, and was dancing and racing back and forth and enjoying her bday dance party. Since early on she has enjoyed music and has let us know it with either her spontaneous dance moves or by just requesting we play a song again (and again and again) which is how we ended up with the list below...

Anita's Songs

Two Weeks Grizzly Bear

1901 Phoenix

Here Comes My Baby Cat Stevens

Whole Wide World Wreckless Eric

I Think I Need A New Heart The Magnetic Fields

Soldier Boy The Shirelles

Gin Soaked Boy Tom Waits

Baby It's You The Shirelles

Ride On Josephine Bo Diddley

Spotty Grotty Anna The Kinks

White Riot The Clash

Rockaway Beach The Ramones

Nervous Breakdown Black Flag

Sweet Jane The Velvet Underground

Queen Of The World Claudette

Sweet Thing Van Morrison

Little Bird The White Stripes

I Burn Today Frank Black

Apple Blossom The White Stripes

Vicar In A Tutu The Smiths

X Offender Blondie

Here Comes Your Man Pixies

You Don't Own Me Lesley Gore

In Transit Albert Hammond, Jr.

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