Hey Monkey,

  Your dad and I talked over the weekend about what sports we thought you might like, what music instrument you might play, and what we thought your personality would be like. We both hoped that you would love to play music as much as we do. We played music together this weekend and I really think you were listening. I let your daddy’s guitar rest against my body while he was playing and you loved the vibrations. You would just start squirming all over the place but what made my heart so happy is when your dad started singing, you were really rockin` and rollin` in there.

You get stuck hearing me sing every day and so I knew that you’d know my voice but I have been afraid that since your dad has to miss a lot of the pregnancy, you might not know his voice. But as soon as he sang, you started kicking and poking me as if to say, “Rock on Pops! I hear you!”

We can’t wait to introduce you to good music… I hope that you’ll know the lyrics to the Beatles or Patty Griffin or Civil Wars before you know the lyrics to Sponge Bob. I’ve been listening to this song over and over and you seem to like it…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NItwaz0nLJA