- What’s going on in the first 5 seconds?
- Yes, she’s crying at the start of the track. Let me set the stage. All three of us are in the car this evening after picking Daddy up from the PATH train so that he didn’t have to walk home in the rain. Daddy is driving; Ada is in her car seat (hence the crying) and Mama is in the back seat trying anything to distract her from the fact that she’s in the car seat. So the first seconds are Ada crying, Mama trying to make her laugh, and Daddy laughing at how abrupt the change is.
- What is mama doing?
- Introducing Ada to slapstick humor. I figured, well, it worked for the three stooges. So I’m bonking myself on the head over and over with an empty water bottle. Neither of us had ever heard Ada laugh this hard.
- “Son of a what?”
- Son of a MONKEY. I said “son of a monkey.” Yes, I use that kind of language around our baby.