I was driving Will to preschool today while listening to Arcade Fire’s album The Suburbs title track The Suburbs when Will asked me “mama, are those guys real?”

Confused, about his question, I looked around trying to figure out who he was talking about. I could only see some average looking people walking their dogs. Surely he could not mean them. “Which guys?” I asked.

“The guys making the music” he replied.

Ahhh.
“Well, they are real, but this is a recording of them.” Will was pretty thoughtful and didn’t say anything so, I continued… “These guys are pretty famous… they have won awards because they have been practicing a lot.” (Being me, and being a mama, I couldn’t help make a plug for the genius nature of the propensity to practice.)

After some more thought Will asked “someday could I go meet them?”

I am putting together a collection of tunes that gets Will rocking. “The Will Mix”. Stay tuned. I will share it with you here.

Spoiler: his favorite artist is The Juan MacLean

Will loves to dance! Sometimes his head moves back and forth so fast he becomes a blur. I have tried to mimic him. It hurts my aging and scared neck and makes me dizzy. He also raises his fists and pumps them to the beat or just sways back and forth with his fists framing his face.

As I type, he is playing his toy xylophone / piano thing-a-ma-bob that we have on loan via the mommy toy share I am doing with my mom friends.

Rock on Will!

We love you auntie Julia!