there has been a change in my big j boy that makes me kind of smile. i remember being a kid, and suddenly discovering MUSIC. big j has started to like different bands, and he now has a little boom box in his room. i often find him in there, playing on the floor, listening to the music. the husband is disturbed because he says big j likes "gangster rap", but that is just how the husband describes anything that's not johnny cash. in reality, big j pretty much likes the same music i like. he says he loves the words the most, which i think is really cool. it's the reason i love music.

his tv shows have also been changing. he chooses shows like icarly and drake and josh over spongebob or jimmy neutron. he reads everything from calvin and hobbes to the newspaper, but rarely will pick up a "kid" book anymore. last night, we had a deep conversation about the holocaust. his emotion sometimes astounds me. he gets absolutely outraged at social injustice. during "iron man," when the soldiers were dragging the boy away from his father, big j stood up in the theater and yelled, "somebody needs to do something!!"

at any rate, he's not a little kid any more in a lot of ways. and now, he's into music. it seems like such a "teenager" thing to be into. sigh. why oh why do they have to grow up so fast?