This is Vanilla Ice, singer of the 1980s hit song “Ice, Ice, Baby.”

Not the sort of person you expect to have his own show on the Home and Garden channel, but wonders never do cease.

I just wanted to mention the background to this story so that you won’t be shocked when I tell you that Alethea recently learned to sing the line “Ice, Ice, Baby” after seeing previews for the show on HGTV.

It’s a lot cuter when Alethea sings it than when Vanilla Ice does, but I don’t think she gets what ice and babies have to do with each other.  (Not that I really do either, but that’s beside the point.)

The point is, today she was supposed to be taking a nap, but instead she was sitting in her crib singing to herself.  Once, when I was walking past her door, I heard her little voice and I paused to hear exactly what she was saying.

Wouldn’t you know it, she’d changed the lyrics and was enthusiastically rapping… “Ice, Ice, Lydia!”