Stevie Wonder

For the past 2 years or so Toby has humored us with his diverse dancing techniques. One of my very favourite moments of the day are our after dinner dance parties. It started a while ago with me teaching him to air guitar to Bon Jovi. A mere 18 months old he captured many peoples attention by requesting Bon Jovi in his then still formative baby voice. But my most FAVOURITE dance of all is what we call his “Stevie Wonder Dance”.

Toby “made this up” himself. (As much as you can claim that Stevie’s head raise and sway was made up by Toby.) We coined it his “Stevie Wonder” dance right away. Always a ham, Toby likes to bring out his Stevie Wonder moves for any willing audience and to ANY genre of music.

So what excitement when we discovered that our PVR’d Oprah Special had the surprise guest of Stevie Wonder himeslf. I caught a few minutes of it today and quickly saved it to watch tonight with Toby.

At dinner I announced that we were going to see the REAL Stevie Wonder on TV.

Toby was speechless.

“Wow…” he said as he chewed his carrots and thought about this.

It’s a lot to process. For years “Stevie Wonder” was a simple swaying dance that made adults laugh. All of a sudden he was told that he was about to see THE REAL STEVIE WONDER. Akin to telling any 13 year old they were about to meet Justin Beiber, I would presume. No wonder the poor kid was speechless.

At last his voice came back and he asked the critical question that revealed to us just what was going on in his little brain,

“Mommy….will Stevie Wonder look like a CAT?”

I have to say, after all that build up (plus the 5 minutes it took to finish his carrots and race downstairs to the TV) the real Stevie Wonder would have been a TOTAL let down if he hadn’t appeared on a rising platform that miraculously ascended onto the stage.

“MOMMY!” He exclaimed excitedly, “HE CAME THROUGH THE STAGE!!!”

And so it turns out that even if he doesn’t look like a cat, Stevie Wonder is pretty special.