We have started watching the show “So You Think You can
Dance” as a family. Toby (for some
reason) adores watching dancing and has often been known to spontaneously leap
off the couch and break into the most hilarious and inspired dance moves. I can’t tell if it is the show we love
or the impromptu performances we are privy to while watching with Toby.
It is also a great show to watch in short spurts. On nights that we have 20 min to fill
between Mia’s bedtime and Toby’s we will allow him the perfect treat of
“watching 2 dances before bedtime”.
More recently, Toby has gotten to be a bit more selective about his
dancing watching. What used to be
an easy bargain is now a battle of negotiations.
“OK,” Toby said the other night, “But it has to be two GIRLS
dancing.”
Rob and I thought nothing of it the first few times he made
this request, but after a few times of him saying this we asked him why.
“Because” he said matter-of-factly, “They are nicer to look
at.”
It was my first moment of realization: my baby boy, one day,
is going to grow up to be a man. And
sometimes, even now at the mere age of 4, he thinks like one. What on EARTH is he going to say when he
has adolescent HORMONES running through him!?!!?!
But the other night, when I was COMPLETLEY unprepared and
TOTALLY on my own (Rob was at soccer, Mia was asleep) Toby and I innocently hit
play on the PVR to get caught up on some SYTYCD auditions when a girl in a
white SEETHROUGH brazier (FOR REAL) and white see through short shorts came on
the stage.
If I hadn’t been immersed in checking my email at the time,
I would have caught her BEFORE Toby could notice, but it was actually HE who
drew my attention to her by jumping up and down excitedly on the couch and announcing,”Mommy!!!!
LOOK!!! Look at this dancer!! I LOVE Her!!!!”
What ensued was the most blatantly-burlesque dance I have
ever seen. Toby and I sat there
dumbfounded with our jaws on the floor as we watched her (albeit flawless)
moves. “Wow”, he said at the end
of it, “She is REALLY good.”
I sent him off to bed after that and crossed my fingers that
he didn’t make any more manly discoveries that night in the privacy of his
bedroom.
I will end this blog post, not with that closing image, but
with a video of Mia’s first ever introduction to So You Think You Can
Dance. This is her, wet haired
post bath and already in her jammies, letting loose to “The Beautiful People”
by Marilyn Manson. (You can't hear the song in the video but believe me - it's hard core metal/screaming music.)
I think I’m going to have to start letting them watch
Cartoons…
Posts
