Editing Chris Ballew (section)

===Caspar Babypants===
Ballew's first brush with children's music came in 2002, when he recorded and donated an album of traditional children's songs to the nonprofit Program for Early Parent Support, titled ''PEPS Sing a Long!''{{Citation needed|date=June 2024}} Although this was a positive experience for him, he did not consider making music for children until he met his wife, [[collage]] artist Kate Endle.<ref>{{Citation |title=Exclusive: Chris Ballew of The Presidents of the United States of America (aka Caspar Babypants)! |url=http://www.celebrityparentsmag.com/2009/10/exclusive-.html#more |accessdate=September 6, 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100718112751/http://www.celebrityparentsmag.com/2009/10/exclusive-.html#more |archivedate=July 18, 2010 }}</ref> Her art inspired Ballew to consider making music that "sounded like her art looked", as he has said. Ballew began writing original songs and digging up nursery rhymes and folk songs in the public domain to interpret and make his own.<ref>{{Citation| title = Chris Ballew's Back with Caspar Babypants| url = http://www.seattleweekly.com/2009-04-29/music/toddler-rock/| accessdate = September 6, 2010| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090505060926/http://www.seattleweekly.com/2009-04-29/music/toddler-rock| archive-date = May 5, 2009| url-status = dead}}</ref> The first album, ''Here I Am!'', was recorded during the summer of 2008 and released in February 2009.

In 2009, Ballew launched a project targeted toward toddlers, called Caspar Babypants.<ref>{{Citation|title=Chris Ballew's Back with Caspar Babypants|url=http://www.seattleweekly.com/2009-04-29/music/toddler-rock/|accessdate=April 30, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090505060926/http://www.seattleweekly.com/2009-04-29/music/toddler-rock|archive-date=May 5, 2009|url-status=dead}}</ref> Ballew uses a three-string acoustic guitar when performing Caspar Babypants songs. Caspar Babypants has released numerous albums, all with exclamatory titles such as ''Here I Am!'', ''More Please!'', ''This Is Fun!'', ''Sing Along!'', ''Hot Dog!'', ''I Found You!'', ''Baby Beatles!'', ''Rise and Shine!'', ''Night Night!'', ''[[Beatles Baby!]]'', ''Away We Go!'', ''Winter Party!'', ''Jump for Joy!'', ''Keep It Real!'', ''Flying High!'', ''Bug Out!'', and ''Happy Heart!''.<ref>{{cite news|title=Say it ain't so! Caspar Babypants has recorded his last album |url=https://www.seattleschild.com/say-it-aint-so-caspar-babypants-has-recorded-his-last-album/ |website=seattleschild.com |date=November 13, 2021 |access-date=September 11, 2023}}</ref>