After dinner dance party

This post is inspired by the wonderful dance party video that Leah posted...I thought I would share my own story. When Lenny works late, which is a lot at this job; the time between afternoon nap and bath time is full of whining and general crankiness. So I was trying to come up with a way to calm the savage beasts that my children would become. I came up with "After dinner dance party". If they eat their vegetables, and are generally not surly at the dinner table, I put on some "big people" music when they are done, and we all dance around like crazy people for a few minutes to blow off steam (in hindsight I am lucky no one has thrown up their dinner). We do a different artist and a different genre of music each night (i.e. The Clash, The Beach Boys) and Gunner tries to "find the beat" in the music...although honestly I think that Hudson is the one with the natural rhythm. So far Gunner's favorites are ABBA's "Dancing Queen", and Madonna's "Beat goes on"....yesterday I caught him singing "Come on, beep, beep, gotta get up onto your feet...on and on, on the beat goes". I guess I need to pick some masculine music for our next session! At least it works, we are all generally laughing by the end of the song.