Music to my ears

We just had a lovely week-long visit from Grandma. She was here for the arrival of a truckload of furniture, most of it from her old house. The most anticipated arrival for Jonathan, however, came courtesy of Grandma Kwon - his piano! He was very excited to see it in the living room when he got home from preschool, and insisted on "practicing" right away. He listed everyone he knows who has a piano: Aunti Liz, Sylvia, Miss Alexa, and now Jonathan! Alex likes it too, by the way, but Jonathan's pretty possessive. He did allow Grandma to play, however, since she picked out songs he could sing along to. His favorite is from "The Sound of Music," and it goes something like this:

"Play Do a Deer!"
"OK. Do, a deer, a female deer. . . "
"What's a lady deer called?"
"A doe."
"Yes! What's a daddy deer called?"
"You tell me."
"No, you tell me!"
"A buck."
"Yes! What's a baby deer called?"
"Do you want to hear the song or not?"
"A fawn!"
"Ray, a drop of golden sun. . . "
"A POT of golden sun! You made a mistake, Mommy!"
"Me, I name, I call myself. . . "
"You sing it - it's too hard for me."
"Fa, a long long way to run."
"So, I really need a friend! "
"La, a note to follow so, Tea, I drink with. . ."
"JAM and BREAD!"
"That will bring us back to doe!"

Jonathan fell sick the last two days for Grandma's visit with a high fever and a double ear infection. Even ibuprofen didn't make much difference, so we took him in for a checkup and some antibiotics. We already knew they make medicine taste much better these days, but I wasn't aware it now comes premixed with caffeine. That's the only explanation, because Jonathan has NOT STOPPED TALKING for three days straight. We're glad he's feeling better, but there's such a thing as too much better. What he comes up with is so random at times, we can only shake out heads and laugh. Today he held up his lunch and said "This is CHEESE! It belongs in a church!" We asked him twice to repeat himself, and he definitely said church. Finally, I asked him "Jonathan, do you mean Chees-us?" He said "Yes!" No idea where this comes from.

Alex also had a wonderful visit with Grandma. He loves playing peekaboo and will walk around with a playsilk over his head, pulling it off and putting it back on, for an hour straight. He eats everything you put in front of him, except applesauce. And he's gotten a tiny bit better about letting me leave the room. He just learned how to wave "Bye bye!" so if I wave at him until my arm falls off, he's content to let me take a two minute trip to the bathroom.