morning living room dance parties

i'm not much of a blogger but other than writing down parts of conversations on scraps of paper to be lost forever or trying to keep a notebook handy, i don't know how to quite document the little things that make being a parent so special. 

this morning was one of those little moments that i want to hang onto to. 

Griffin has a music playlist that his dad and i have added to since he was just a baby. the difference now is that his musical tastes are developing and changing constantly and he knows he gets to pick the songs. this happens most often when we're listening to KEXP in the morning or in the car and we hear his little voice from somewhere perk up and excitedly say "i really like this! can you please add this one to my list?" And then i pull up spotify on my phone, do a search and add it to his playlist. clockwork. done. 

his dad and i are often pleasantly surprised by the songs he's drawn to - sure, there's a few katy perry and taylor swift tunes in there (we're not crazy about these but we get why he likes them - very simple pop songs with dance-y beats and hooks that easily turn into earworms...plus the repetition that most young children find easy to digest) but more often than not they're more complicated songs and they span genres. 

from age 3 he's been able to identify Price and David Bowie and James Brown. he loves the Beastie Boys and the Beatles and Daft Punk. he loves classical music, indie rock and soul. 

this morning it was this song (again, thank you KEXP)...from an album i listened to extremely often in the early 2000's. i don't know, i guess you had to be there with my thoughts and memories from this time period but the fact that he liked it so much and was insistent that i look it up immediately nearly brought me to tears.

but, instead of turning into a weepy mess right before we needed to leave for school and work, he started dancing his little heart out and i joined in. our family is prone to spontaneous living room dance parties but this is one that i'll remember for a long time. 

xoxo.