July 28, 2001 - Saturday
I called home while waiting for a connecting flight this evening. It was just about Harry's bedtime, so when he got on the phone, and after our now typical Daddy, Harry, Harry, Daddy exchange, I sang just the last phrase of the first verse of "Just the Way You Look Tonight." Sure enough, Harry was right there to deliver his "Tonight." His mother also says that earlier in the afternoon she had put on Harry's new "Bananaphone" CD to an enthusiastic response. There's a song on there that I've started to learn on the guitar and I've played it a couple of times for Harry already. And, apparently, when Raffi started to sing my song, Harry stopped and said, "tittar" (a pronunciation improved from "tatar" for guitar) and "daddy."

Of course, I'm touched that he remembered my version of the song, but I'm equally impressed that he now obvious remembers songs so well. And, while we knew that already with "Just the Way You Look Tonight," I see this as an even more impressive musical step. Here, he not only recognized a song he'd heard before, but he recognized it in a completely different version as the same song.


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