Oscar saved and saved his allowance and went out and bought himself (with dad’s help) an ipod Shuffle.  He is obsessed.  As Ian observed this morning, we have never seen him this taken with an object before.  It literally is the first thing he wants in the morning and the last thing he will be doing at night.

The fact that this object brings him a wide variety of music makes his parents very happy.  We monitor the volume at which he listens to his tunes and we watch him, with an approving smile on our faces, dance around and groove to the music.  He also sings.  In a high pitched voice.  All the time. 

Actually, when the music transitions into a guitar solo or if he is listening to the classical music he has on his shuffle, he stops singing to say, “This is the guitar part now.”  or ” I am listening to my piano music so I am just going to hum …”  Thanks for letting us know ALL the intimate details.

But as a parent I have to admit that having my six-year-old walk around the house singing in a high-pitched “You can’t always get what you want …. you can’t always get what you want … ” and then informing me that it is the “guitar part” well, that just makes me smile.