I think my kid is maybe a little weird

It's been apparent to Andy and me for a while now that Landon is smarter than either of us, but lately I'm beginnig to feel like he totally out-classes us all together. He's never shown a huge interest in music; he hates it when we sing along to songs on the radio and usually asks us to "make it quieter" when we play music at home. Turns out, maybe we just haven't been tuning in to his style of music...

A few days ago we were playing on sesamestreet.org and we found a C is for Cookie video segment that he recognized from his Sesame Street DVD. He was really excited and wanted to play it repeatedly so he could "jump" to it (his idea of dancing), and I was really excited because it entertained both of them while I finished making dinner. After a while he started messing around on the page and discovered there are several versions of C is for Cookie. He soon realized that his favorite version is the one by (apparently) famous opera singer, Marilyn Horne. He is obsessed. He'll come up to me throughout the day and tell me he needs to jump to C is for Cookie. "The one she sings, Mommy." 

I thought this was a little quirky, but it makes him happy, so whatever. 

Well, today we were listening to Christmas music on Pandora while eating lunch and a very operatic version of Twelve Days of Christmas came on. He declared a few times that "this is my favorite Christmas song!" which was news to me because for the last week he's been all about Jingle Bells. Then, suddenly, he insisted he was finished with his lunch. Now it's very uncharacteristic of him to say he's finished with lunch while there is still food on his plate, but I thought maybe he just wasn't into his food today. Unfortunately, I didn't get to him before the song ended. As soon as it stopped playing He Melted Down. It was crazy. He started sobbing and telling me, in the most heart-broken voice imaginable, "Mommy, I need to jump to that song!" 

I found a punk version in our itunes, but he just looked at me disgustedly and repeated, "No! I need to jump to that song."

So apparently...

Our little opera fanatic