Boy: What are my talents?
Me: So many things. Reading, Some sports. Some video games. Some musical instruments. Learning things quickly, sticking with some things.
Boy: What are your talents?
Me: Some people say Being funny.
Boy: No, that's not it. Wiggling your ears and raising one eyebrow at a time.
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This morning, wanted to show me some chords he learned for the song Patience. Yes, the one by Guns N Roses.
Showed me the D chord, and how he lifts his pinky. Corrected my form when I played it. "It looks like your hand is going to the side. Try up and down."
Then played Splatoon 3 on the Nintendo Switch nearly all morning while I did a shoulder workout and got ready for work.
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Driving to Kung Fu camp (Summer, 2023)
Boy: I call DJ!
Me: Who's DJ and why are you calling them?
Boy: Different kind of "call" Dad.
Listening to Come Together by the beatles
Boy: He says "Shoot me" in the beginning
Me: Really?
Boy: It's so different when you can read the lyrics on the phone
Boy: Miley Cyrus didn't give Amazon her lyrics though, because one is wrong in Flowers. Let me play it for you.
Skips forward a few songs, then Sweet Child of Mine comes on.
Boy: Nevermind. Can't skip past this one - it's too good.
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Late July
Today driving to Kung Fu camp, L is the DJ and it's now Brittany Spears' Womanizer, followed by Sweet Child of Mine, and finally Here Comes the Sun by the Beatles.
On Brittany
Boy: I love this song
Me: Brittany Spears has kind of a deep voice. I mean, it's deeper than yours. (Why did I say this? No idea.)
Boy: That's because I haven't hit puberty yet, Dad.
