Catching Up

Today's blog entry is going to be about catching up on all the things that I have not yet talked about that happened recently. I really want to make sure that Theo is able to read about these things if he wants to when he is bigger. Yesterday, at the Labour Day Picnic I met a guy who I think is autistic, but had a very interesting talent. After asking me for my name he asked me for my birthdate. After less than a minute of thinking about it he told me that I was born on a Friday. Then he asked me for Theo's birthdate and told me that Theo was born on a Thursday. He was correct about Theo and it was great to find out what day of the week I was born.

My mother does not remember these things. Which is fair enough. I just want to make sure that one way or another I record these things for Theo. It's fun for me to do and hopefully it will be something that makes Theo happy in the future. And in many ways it is a diary for me also.

So...here is today's entry. On August 9, 2008 Jamie, Theo and I went to the wedding reception of our friends Matt and Liz. Matt and Liz are our neighbours and absolutely wonderful people. At their reception they had a couple of bands playing. Theo loves music and he loves drums. So he asked us if he could go and play on the drum set that was being set up at the time. We told him that he would have to go and ask the band, which he promptly did. When the band's drummer said that it was ok, he got Jamie to help him get onto the stool, took the three drumsticks that he found on the snare drum, wedged one of the drum sticks under his...ok, I'm just going to say it...under his ass and started using the other two (holding them at the end and not at the middle of the drum stick - exactly how you're supposed to do it). And he did a drum roll and other interesting rhythms and even used the cymbals! It was absolutely amazing!!! And he was drumming so hard that he at one point lost one of the drum sticks. So he picked up the one 'on reserve' and just kept going!!!

At one point he pointed at me with his drumstick and said 'Mommy, dance!'. So I danced to his drumming! :) Anyway, I didn't have my camera with me at the time, but once I remembered that my cell phone could take pictures I used that to capture some of his 'performance'. Here is one of the pictures I took.



About a week ago Jamie and I bought Theo a kiddie drumset on Ebay. Wish us luck! *grins* But to me this is just great! If he likes to drum and is any good at it eventually if he even sticks to this - who are we to stop him! I think this is great and so does Jamie!