I truly believe Sammy is an old soul. I read somewhere, once, that old souls never return in "healthy" bodies. There's just something about him, about the way he just knows things that I wonder if it's really a two year old in that little body.
This isn't a mommy post bragging about how smart my son is. (We all know that already. ;-)) Instead, it just a post about my wonder at his love of all things music. He can identify almost every major instrument (including the oboe and the bassoon!). He can hear music and tell you, with decent accuracy, what instrument he hears. (We play classical music for him all night, and when we're putting him to bed, it's not unusual for him to stop, put his hand to his ear and say, "Oh - I hear a violin! I hear a flute!" If we are out and he hears music, he will stop until he can locate the speaker it's coming from.) When he picks up an instrument, he will count it off and then tap his foot to keep rhythm while he plays.
I truly believe there is music in his old soul. We could not have taught him the things he knows.
I took out my violin for him after his nap - he had never seen a real violin before, just ones on TV and on the computer. He immediately tried to put it up at his chin and hold the bow as you would expect a violinist to hold a bow. Then he placed the violin between his legs and drew the bow across the "cello". Finally, he held it next to him and told us he was playing the bass.
Has he been exposed to music since birth? Yes. Has he watched way too many episodes of Little Einsteins. Yes. But the way he lights up when he plays his saxophone or his clarinet, the way he makes us play in a band with him, the way he makes anything into a tuba or an oboe - there's got to be more to it. It comes too naturally for him. It must have come with him from wherever he was before. And I can't wait to see what he does with it as he grows.
My name is erika-renee, but call me eka - pronounced "eh-ka." I'm suddenly somehow 32, though I still love pigtails and overalls and silly, happy things. I live north of Boston, and I'm happily married to 
I'm a mama!
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