Current Favorite Toy: Blender

Sing, sing, sing!!!

Santiago likes music. He likes to dance. He likes to play music. He likes to listen to music. He likes to sing.

Santiago will sway to music he likes, but his favorite way to dance is to be held by Mom or Dad and bounced to the beat. He likes to play any instrument. At his friend Annabelle's house, he makes a bee-line for her miniature guitar and he has gotten quite good at strumming. He plays his drum while listening to music. This afternoon he entertained Mom with a performance on his wooden xylophone complete with signaling his song's end by "singing the resting note," as we do in music class. Today, Santiago and Mom went to the Austin City Limits Music Festival for two hours. Santiago enjoyed listening to the gospel band. It was like Earth, Wind and Fire was playing Sunday school hits. Santiago truly enjoys live music and is very supportive with applause, a cry of "Yaaayyyyy!" and calls for "More!" The day before yesterday Santiago started singing a duet with Mom. She was singing a non-word version of the "Bubble Song" which is a rewrite of "10 Little Indians." The night before last he became maestro, conducting Mom, Dad and himself through several renditions of that song at the dinner table.