growing baby

Whenever we’re in the car, Mateo orders his music by number. He’s learned that this children’s music CD is in slot 2 in our 6-disk changer, and so often before getting in the car — or while in it already — he starts telling us “dos, dos, dos, dos” until we change the changer to slot 2, and his favorite song on that disk starts. It happens to be “Had a Little Rooster” which is track 1 on that disk.

He also knows other disks in the changer. Slot 3 has Birdie’s Playhouse. Slot 5 has a Spanish language children’s music disk. Slot 6 has a song sampler by Laurie Berkner (his favorite on this disk: “We Are the Dinosaurs”, which is track 2). Slot 4 contains some instrumental guitar music, and he never orders that. Slot 1 contains the soundtrack to the Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s musical episode “Once More, With Feeling” — Mateo doesn’t care much for the music, but he knows that slot 1 contains something called “Buffy”, and sometimes asks for it by that name. We oblige.

Interestingly enough, we thought it’d cause a lot of confusion if we moved the disks around in any way at all. So we haven’t. But Linda’s parents also have a Prius, and also have a CD changer, and even also have the same children’s music album as what we have in slot 2…. except for theirs is in slot 1. Mateo was horribly confused about things when in their car, since he kept asking for “dos” but we kept playing “uno”, and he kept asking for 6 but we kept telling him there was no 6 in that car… *sigh*. Life is tough as a little kid. I don’t think he understood, in the end.