Some Mornings Just Start Off Right

TheAmazombie

United States3714 Posts

July 24 2012 02:51 GMT

This morning my son (age 3) and I were sitting at the table eating some breakfast. In the middle of his banana and yoghurt, he looks up at me and with a deep, growly sing-song voice says "Clap hands. Clap Hands."

My first thought was a reference to the They Might Be Giants song "Clap Your Hands" seeing as we are TMBG freaks in my house...

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...but after another second of thinking, I realized that he was asking for a different song altogether. A huge smile starting beaming from my face. I asked "Do you want me to play that song?" to which he replied with a nod. I immediately put the song on.

Tom Waits is one of my personal and musical heroes, so nothing make me happier than for my son at 3 years old to sing and ask to listen to Tom Waits.

One Proud Papa.

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Thaniri

1264 Posts

July 24 2012 04:33 GMT

What in the hell kind of morning happens at 8:52 PST/11:52 EST?

GnarlyArbitrage

575 Posts

July 24 2012 04:47 GMT

I wanted to go see one of his shows once. Nope. Sold out in three hours. Not even that, but the ticket prices were above a hundred bucks for the cheapest seats.

B.I.G.

3251 Posts

July 24 2012 11:04 GMT

On July 24 2012 13:47 DigiGnar wrote:
I wanted to go see one of his shows once. Nope. Sold out in three hours. Not even that, but the ticket prices were above a hundred bucks for the cheapest seats.

then I guess... you'll have to wait for tom :D

TheAmazombie

United States3714 Posts

July 24 2012 13:36 GMT

On July 24 2012 13:33 Thaniri wrote:
What in the hell kind of morning happens at 8:52 PST/11:52 EST?

LoL. Don't worry, it happened at actual morning time, I just didn't write this until the evening. I was still beaming and being a proud dad when I got on to TL.

AmericanUmlaut

Germany2597 Posts

July 24 2012 13:37 GMT

That's awesome! :-D My 2 year-old daughter can sing "We Will Rock You", and every time I sit down at the piano she demands that I sing "Six A.M., Six A.M.!" (Brick, by Ben Folds)

TheAmazombie

United States3714 Posts

July 24 2012 13:40 GMT

On July 24 2012 22:37 AmericanUmlaut wrote:
That's awesome! :-D My 2 year-old daughter can sing "We Will Rock You", and every time I sit down at the piano she demands that I sing "Six A.M., Six A.M.!" (Brick, by Ben Folds)

Those are great ones. We play a ton of The Mountain Goats and Tom Waits. He still has not heard Ben Folds much, but we play Fraggle Rock and Muppet songs on piano and guitar a ton. It is a great time. He loves to take the toy guitar hero controller and pretend it is a real guitar and rock out and sing. Little rock stars are awesome.

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