Debut album

Cailan has always liked to listen to music. Ever since he's been able to identify numbers, he likes to watch the CD player as the CD plays and see the number of each track as it starts up. He can recognize many of our CDs by hearing just the first few seconds, though his names for the albums wouldn't be recognizeable by anyone else. He labels them by their cover art, leading to things like "Red Eddie" and "Clouds guitar" and "Blue George Winston." He also has memorized most of the songs on CDs that we listen to a lot, but what he remembers is the track number, not the actual song name.

Today, he wanted to play the guitar, so Chris got it down off the high shelf and helped him play. Cailan started making up different songs; he gave each song a name and a number. Here is the track listing for Cailan's CD:

1. Ollie the Olive
2. Clipboard
3. Zucchini
4. Light
5. Pictures
6. Ceiling Fan

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Although he played the guitar, he prefers percussion. It is amazing how much of my day can be spent discussing all the things in the house which do NOT make good drums. For example, the glass-plated French doors to the sunporch do not make good drums. The speakers are not good drums. The newly-installed wood floor is not a good drum. However, the kitchen trashcan is a good drum, the step on the porch is another good drum, and of course the bin for the set of big Legos, turned upside down, is a fantastic drum.

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We unpacked a box in Cailan's room and found, among other things, his toy phone, which has been missing since we moved. He was very happy to have it back and spent a long time playing with it on Sunday. He said, "I am going to push the button on my phone to make music. Then I will pretend to be a cat dancing to the music."