Who Can Wait?

Ok...we cheated. I don't know what it is with composers, none of us can leave a CD wrapped in its cellophane with a week more to go. So the house has been booming with the sounds of Beethoven over the last few days.

The boxed set is really overwhelming to a novice. I recognize many of the symphonies, but not the numbers or the names. There is just so much to choose from. Only two CDs have been brought out, and it is enough to last an entire term.

Beethoven and Gershwin are clearly the top two out of the three composers we've had this year. And we've discovered, that while Grace has an appreciation and erie sensitivity to the tone of music, Jack is our born music fanatic...it is almost mathematical to him.

Ever since we introduced music for naps and bedtime (he was still quite young) he has fallen asleep to many of the classics. Now his appreciation for the music he is so familiar with, is beginning to show. Jack will play the first 10 seconds of a song, over and over again until he decides to allow the music to move on. Every measure is analyzed, and seems to fill him up. He will sometimes run the 10 second byte and watch for your reaction, all the while trying to hide the smile and satisfaction that is filling him up as he hears the sound byte again. It is a sight that makes you laugh every time.