Better than TV

Last night, in our VIP lounge (or what most people would call their TV/play room), I put on Max's favorite TV show, Jake and the Neverland Pirates. The show started out with Hook capturing fireflies, so Max went to the window to see if he could see any. Unfortunately, the window in that room faces the front of the house, and all the street lights, so of course he couldn't see any. I called him instead into his and Nolan's room, which faces the back of the house, and the trees and wetlands that are back there. Because it's a second floor room, we were able to look down into the trees, and it literally looks like the entire area is glowing. Max sat down next to me, and we were both mesmerized by the coming and going of the lights dancing around. Then after a couple of minutes, Max put his ear up to the window and said, "Listen! The frogs are talking to us!" And they were. It would be silent, and then one frog would croak out, joined by others, until it sounded like they were singing to us and then were silent again. Every now and again, we'd hear it in stereo from the ponds on either side of us. Max told me they were singing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.

We sat there for well over a half an hour, well past the end of his TV show. I'm just happy to know that that time, that sight, was more enticing and more magical to him than that show, and that he let me enjoy it with him.