The thing she has been most obsessed about lately is a song. The song is called "Go West" by Austin Lucas. I have no idea why she picked this song. It all started one day when we were in the car. The song came on and she was making happy sounds and I simply said "Adelaide...do you hear the banjo?" She calls the song "Boodalou" which we assume means banjo. The funny part is that the version of the song she usually hears doesn't even have the banjo in it....but she doesn't care about that. As soon as that song was over she kept saying more, more, more, buudalou, boodaloo, more" and maybe I did the wrong thing..because I played it for her over and over just as she requested. Well her obsession went further than just that car ride, and before you know it Myles and I could be seen playing her videos of the song on Youtube, or different versions that we found online etc. Every time we got in the car she would just say "boodalou" over and over until I would play it. Any other song would not do - she only wanted to hear that one.
At first I figured that she loved the song because he says the word "boots", which was one of her first words. She obviously recognized the word and thought that was a beginning of being able to sing along. The I realized that Myles and I had gone and see Austin play acoustic at a house here in Portland when I was pregnant, so she must have heard him then! THEN I remembered that he was also part of the Revival Tourthat Myles and I went to when I was VERY pregnant, and so of course she heard him there too! Maybe hearing him reminds her of the simpler life of comfort in my womb =) Wouldn't that be crazy?! Also, about a year ago Austin played at a Wine Bar down in Oregon City, and it was early enough that we could take her...so here is the picture from that night.
Anyway, we went to this cool block party thing up in Vancouver last Friday and Austin Lucas was there. He was part of an AMAZING line up, and we were so excited for Adelaide to get to hear her favorite song live. It's not often that she gets to see a show, she can't get into bars obviously, and goes to bed much to early. I took her up to Austin to meet him in person. I had no idea if she would have any idea who he was (although she has seen his video about a million times) or what he would think of his youngest fan...but I'm so glad I did it. He took us up to the band room and played her favorite song to HER! It was such an amazing moment. I think she was a little bit overwhelmed because there were some other people in there watching her...but I know it made an impression. Myles filmed the whole thing -so watch it and turn up the sound. You can tell Austin is amazing just by how great he sounds recorded from our tiny little digital camera. He blows me away every time, he is amazing.
The next morning (and every morning since) Adelaide's first word is Austin Lucas. She wants to watch the video over and over and over and over. It's all she talks about. She now says "Dooo esssstt" which means "go west", and sings it to herself, I've even heard her say it in her sleep!
I actually let her watch it the other day while I was trying to get some work done, and then I looked down and she had completely formatted the card on the camera and deleted EVERYTHING!!!! My heart sunk because I knew we had lost this precious video. Luckily I found a program online that I had to buy which was able to get it back! Whew! Can you imagine loosing that video?
I feel so lucky to get these chances to expose her to music that her daddy and I love so much. I want her to love music like we do, and I can tell that she already does.
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