Parker loves music. He really, really does. Lately, as you know, I've been watching The Bob Newhart Show through Netflix and everytime the credits roll, Parker stops and takes notice. He turns around from whatever he is doing, faces the television screen, and often he dances, as only a 14 month old child can, with arms up in the air. Occasionally he bends his knees and bounces a little bit. He really likes it.
We used to always skip past the credits when watching a television program on DVD, but not anymore. As a matter of fact at times we would go through Star Trek credits twice just because Parker enjoyed them so much.
Last night Michael and I watched the movie Shine. The movie wasn't a life changing one, an in general it was fairly depressing, but the music was wonderful. Parker was with us for about half of it. Anyway, the point of the post: There's this scene about midway through the film in which David Helfgott plays the Rachmaninoff Number 3 with a full orchestra. Parker became very much involved in this portion of the movie, to the extent that at the end of the performance he threw his little arms up over his head and ran toward us with the biggest smile on his face that I have ever seen. I wish that I could have taken a picture of him at that moment, but the image is clear in my mind as I know it will not be given another week.
Another adorable thing he did was to start voluntarily clapping whenever there were applause on screen.
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What sweet descriptions of Parker! I can picture him doing all that you described. I wonder if he'll be interested to read these things about himself when he is older.
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