June 28, 2006
Song
Aidan sings these stream of consciousness rock n roll songs. This afternoon I was cleaning the inside of the car while Willie napped and Aidan was hanging out with me. I sent him to hose down some rubber floor mats and he came back soaking wet and started singing.
I think his songs are brilliant. They display improvisational skills that I studied in acting school - and I have this almost clinical appreciation of them. One of the things he does is repeat a sort of mantra - and he'll just repeat it until it turns into something else naturally.
Today he was singing something like, "I don't love my mom no I don't love my mom" over and over again with his best bad-ass rock n roll voice. I certainly noticed it, but didn't think much of it, we had been having a really nice day and he had no reason to show me agression.
He came over to me a few minutes later and said, "Mom, you know my songs aren't always about someone real."
"I know, Aidan"
"Because I was just singing a song about a mom and I didn't want you to think it was about you."
June 22, 2006
Coop
Here's pics of the coop that might be over a month old now. The chickens are hardly ever in the pen these days - they're pretty trustworthy roaming the yard. We live on a busy road and if they are close and a truck goes by (or a train which runs behind the houses across the street) they go running in the other direction. They do go near the mobile home park entrance road but it's full of speed bumps and folks generally drive pretty slow. People have been pretty friendly about them so far. We've got a rooster though and we'll see what happens when he finds his voice.