Our friends warned us that the musical landscape of our house would be altered after Ben's arrival. They were right. Although it is at times annoying to be stuck with the Bob the Builder theme song running around in your head, luckily for us, much of the change hasn't been so bad.

Take, for example, this cd by They Might Be Giants. It's goofy in a way that four-year-olds and adults can both appreciate. I got the bright idea to put this cd in when we were on our way to see the UR Philharmonic in which our friend Jane plays the violin. One of the songs on the cd is entitled, simply, "Violin." Boy, were we sick of that song by the end of the night after Ben insisted that we play it over and over.

Frankly, some of the cd is over Ben's head, especially when you factor in his still incomplete command of the English language. For example, I'm not sure he "gets" the joke in "Four Minutes of Two" in which a man waiting for a two o'clock date falls asleep and wakes up, Rumplestilskin-like, to a futuristic world but is reassured by the clock on the wall that still says four minutes of two. Even though he might not get the joke, Ben still likes to sing along with the "four minutes of two" refrain.

We're going to have to look for other kid cd alternatives, though, as this one is starting to grow old. This isn't really a criticism. It's been in the cd player for three weeks now.