Grief Management and Great Memory

Note to self: when you get home from running errands with the whole family and your two year old decides he wants the almost totally deflated balloon lying on the counter (where it has been for months) and you give it to him and he demands that you blow it back up and you cannot convince him that what he is requesting is impossible, do not tell him that the balloon is "as dead as your dead turtle." Because his weeping will only intensify and continue for the next 20 minutes until Mommy decides to take him to the store with her (she was already planning on going) so that she can buy him a balloon (which she already had to buy for the other son's birthday) and he can play with it for 5 minutes before moving on to another toy.

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Last night while watching Michael Johns perform on American Idol, Davis spontaneously broke out with his rendition of "We Will Rock You". I turned to Kate and asked where he had heard that song. It is not on any of our kid or adult CD's we play in the house or the car. We asked him where he had heard that song and he replied, "At Grandma's house." We realized that two weeks ago we were watching AI at Kate's mom's house and Michael Johns had performed "We Will Rock You". We were impressed.