I hope I don't have to come back from the dead to intervene...

For many reasons of late, Jadon's been having some difficulty getting excited about music.  I told him that he had to do some of his music theory in preparation for a Certificate of Merit exam (level 10) coming up, & he threw every excuse at me:

"This is too hard!"

"I don't understand this!"

"This is too much work!"
"This is going to take forever!"

"I'm not going to do it!"

With wisdom I usually lack, I kept my mouth shut and stuck to my guns.

Finally, he returned to the room and started getting to work, but not without more cheeky comments:

"I'm not even going to tell my kids about music!  If they even ask about it, I'm going to tell them it doesn't exist!"

"It's going to be like CoCo!"

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Uno, dos, tres, my counting is a mess!

While on a recent weekend trip to San Diego, we rented a surrey & peddled through an outdoor marketplace.  Evangelina was interested in getting a fidget popper (a two-sided rainbow-colored rubber doohickey with "buttons" you press from either side), but all of them were being sold for $10-15.  Some of the vendors were Hispanic, so big brother Jadon was put in charge of the haggling.  

He dutifully asked, "Cuanto cuesta?"  (How much?)

The vendor answered, "Diez dolares."

Evangelina looked at Jadon and asked, "So how much is it?"

Jadon, seeking to encourage his little sister in her abilities, said, "You know what that is.  You can count."

Evangelina looked down & said to herself, "Uno, dos, diez!" then turned to JJ with excitement, "Mommy!  It's only three dollars!!!"