A little Update.

The other day I posted about that a wreck I was over a little Sesame Street video, and how my boys are going to grow out of it….. yeah I was a mess.

Well Jason dropped the boys off at my work today as he was headed off to work.  I had a meeting with our children’s pastor right after work we went straight there.  As we were driving to the church it was pretty quiet, and all of a sudden,

Bam says, “Mommy, your sparkly lady who sing 1,2,3,4 was on Sesame Street today.” 
Fred: ”Yeah, the blue sparkle lady, but she wasn’t blue, she was regular.” 
Me:  “Oh Yeah it was on today?  I saw it on You Tube the other day.” 
Fred: “Everything is on You Tube!”

Then the conversation went on to tell me the entire storyline of today’s show.  Fred and Bam took turns telling me what happened and who said what, and that the letter was ‘L’ and of course the number was ‘4′.  And once again I was reminded that they are still my little boys……. for a little while longer any ways.

 

By the way, if you’ve seen the Fiest video, she’s wearing a blue sparkly pant suit.  She pulls it off WAY better than I EVER could!!!!

 

***Edited to add a conversation I just heard the boys have.***

They were playing ‘guys’ in their room and their guys got a little roudy… I think there was a car accident. You can never tell, those guys are always up to someting. Fred’s guy told Bam’s guy…..  “Ohhh I’m hurt.”  Bam’s Guy: “Do you have any health insurance?”  I didn’t hear anything after than because I was to busy hiding my laughter!!

 

Emotions

Ok, so I like to read Katie’s blog. She is the little sister of another friend of mine, Kara.  She recently blogged about her biggest influences in music. I love music. I also love Feist, so I had to click on the link she provided. I was ill-prepared for what I was about to watch! I have been watching Sesame Street for the last 8 years and I love Sesame Street. I love how my boys have become zombies to this show. I love how they giggle over the silliness. I love how they break into song over the ABC’s and counting. I love how they try to guess what the number and letter of the day will be. I love how they think of the puppets as real people. While pregnant with Bam, we took Fred to Sesame Street Live. Fred was swallowed into the storyline.  It was awesome. He was quite frightened of Oscar the Grouch though. As I clicked on the link and the clip began to play I smiled, amazed, how imaginative those Sesame Street fellows are. And then, I burst into tears.  Like a baby. Now it’s all over. My baby is going to Kindergarten and I won’t be watching it anymore. Maybe I can slip in a show here or there when there is no school, but I know that them wanting to watch, and them initiating it won’t be happening anymore. Fred already vocalizes how much of a baby show it is while he sits to watch, but his attention isn’t really there like it ued to be.  I know they are growing up, and Sesame Street is a baby show, but I find it’s the little things that are getting me, not the big obvious things like starting school or riding a bike with no training wheels, it’s things like watching a Sesame Street clip.

 

There must be something wrong with me!!!

 

Music

Ok, so I’m one of those people who love LOVE music. And well to be completely honest, I’m also one of those people who cannot make music. Be it with an instrument, writing the words, or even my own mouth.  God did not bless me with that talent. It used to bother me, but not so much anymore. But for some odd reason, I can listen to music and tell you if your on or off key, or if the music doesn’t match the words. Stuff like that I get. Whether that has a name or not, I’m not sure. Music is so important to me. Music is always going thruogh my head. Everything seems to go back to a song. Music is life! Well, anyways, I sometimes like to pretend that I’m a music critic and tell other people what I like. Whether they do or not! So I’m going to do that now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtVtR2AGfsI

There is a song that I heard on the radio for the first time today.  Our local station does  ‘New Music Monday’s” every week. But sometimes we get lucky and they will showcase something on other days too.  The song today was  ’Almost Lover’, by A Fine Frenzy. This might not be a brand new song, but it’s new to me. I just have to tell you the emotions this song creates. First of all the singer, Alison Sudol, is gorgeous. This song has the most clean and crisp sound that I have heard in a long time.  It’s beautiful, honest,  gutwrenching, and a little uplifting in a sad way.  I realize that is a confusing group of words to link together in a song. I think the reason this song is so powerful to me is because everyone’s felt the words she is singing.  Either you were the one left behind, or you were the Almost Lover. I listened to it thinking about Jason. He never once was my almost lover, but what would life had been like if he would have been.  Oh my, I can’t even think about that!  But it’s also a song about moving on. Who hasn’t gone through a break up or something else heartbreaking, and you think you’ll never get over it. But the words to this song are like a light at the end of that tunnel, reaching out to grab your hand and walk with you until your through.  Just beautiful.