Listening to some music…
r: Who sings this song?
me: Okkervil River
r: Why does he sing it?
me: Because he wrote it.
r: oh…. Like David Byrne wrote “In the Future”?
The fact that this is her ‘default’ song is endlessly amusing to me.
… and this year I have a daughter old enough to sing me ‘happy birthday’. Life is strange and wonderful.
We celebrated r’s 2nd birthday a bit over a week ago. She’s now old enough to understand the concept of a birthday, and it’s been really fun to watch her get excited about it.
She’s also getting to the age where it’s a bit easier to find somebody to watch her while we go out [...]
