A proud mommy moment

Eddy, Quinn, and I were in Babies-R-Us this past Saturday just looking around to see if they had this specific co-sleeper I am interested in. They didn't but that really isn't important here. Eddy runs to use the restroom and Quinn and I are just browsing and I notice this other mother with her little daughter and grandma also in tow and they kept looking over at us. At first I couldn't figure it out but then I realized that Quinn had been singing the entire time; the same tune over and over. I had been hearing it all day so it kind of had become background noise to me. The grandma then comes over to us and asks if he is singing an Edvard Grieg tune. I told her that it was actually an Antonin Dvorak tune, the main melody from New World Symphony No. 9. She was just shocked and yells over to her daughter that he was singing Dvorak. She was absolutely beside herself with disbelief. She goes on telling the daughter how he is singing it with all the right notes. I just said that he really seems to like music and picks tunes up right away. In the back of my mind I was thinking, "sweet Jesus, my boy is a musical genius". I was such a proud mommy at that moment. Eddy missed the entire exchange but I relayed it to him again and again.

It really isn't as if we force music on him. I don't play classical music 24 hours a day but he seriously has this frighteningly good memory. His Kindermusik teacher was also very impressed with my story. We hadn't listened to Dvorak in class at all but I think he picked it up listening to it at home one time. I can almost guarantee that that mother from Babies-R-Us took her little girl home and started playing classical music for her.

You can find the excert here. The portion he has mastered starts around the 45 second mark.

My little cowboy

We took Quinn trick-or-treating at Kowalski's and he LOVED it. He was much more engaged with the whole process this year. It was so cute to hear him saying, "trick-or-treat" in his sweet little boy voice.

We also took him up and down or street on Halloween which he also enjoyed. My mom came over to help us hand out candy and he had even more fun helping her hand the candy out when we got done. He was so high on life and excited each time the doorbell rang. My mom would open it up and he would shout, "hello everybody". He also resorted to his "scary" dinosaur roar later in the evening. What a kook!

Here he is on his naturally induced Halloween high (please excuse the runny nose but it was cold out that evening).