The kids and I went on a bit of a trek this weekend. I packed up their portable CD players (I'm sorry but portable music players are always going to be Walkmans to me, I don't care how it dates me.) and their little CD library cases and off we went. DJ found some CDs that I bought him when he was younger, the 50 Favorite Kids Singalongs. He was amazed and so thrilled with them, they were like brand new again. He's happy as a little clam singing along;
"....j k l m neno p coo r s..."
It made me realize that at this age it's fine for him to enjoy this CD and sing along, but it won't last much longer. Just 3 short years from now he'll be 10 and he will no longer be so amazed by The Ants Go Marching.
"....oooh, remender the Blah Blah Black Sheep song mommy....."
Of course, it's possible he will still be in love with this CD at the age of 10, maybe he will still enjoy singing along at the top of his lungs. If this in fact happens, I'll tell you who won't be thrilled. That would be his sister, AJ, at the age of 13. If there is anybody that is going to be far too cool for Mary Had A Little Lamb it will be her. There's no way that she's going to put up with his ruining her reputation with his nerdy choice in music. Clearly, she would have good reason to put her mad karate skills to use and be forced to karate chop his face in order to shut him up. In the meantime he's completely oblivious to what the future could bring and is perfectly happy to sing along;
"....mahwollee mahwollee mahwollee, life is but a dreammmmmah!"
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