Rocknoceros!

My antsy kids and I were hanging around the house mid-morning figuring out what to do, and then I realized it was Thursday! I could take them to see Rocknoceros! This kid-oriented, three-man-band plays at the Dulles Town Center Mall in front of Sears every Thursday from 11:00-11:50. Collin and I went religiously last summer. Come to think of it, Olivia was there too, but she had a warm, cozy seat in my belly rather than up in front of the stage where Collin shook his tambourine and danced around.

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About a year ago is when his obsession with music began. Now that he has been to two high school band concerts, listens to music books on CD, watches YouTube videos of people playing various instruments, and reads books about different bands, I thought I'd have to hold him back from jumping on stage with Coach, Williebob, and Boogie as the uninvited fourth member. So we packed up his little Collin Monster backpack with egg shakers for Olivia, bells, a tambourine, and an xylophone, and headed for the mall. When we got there, I had to drag Collin TO the stage, not from it. "Do you want to play your tambourine like Coach, honey?" He threw the thing on the ground and stood there stone-faced as still as could be while 30 or so other children hopped up and down, shaking and playing their noisemakers. Even their catchy tune, "Blast Off" didn't get a rise out of him. Olivia, however, smiled away as she happily shook a green egg shaker. Well, at least someone was enjoying the show. Such a 360 from last summer!

Turns out the poor kid had to go to the bathroom and was holding it for 45 minutes. We ran to the bathroom in JC Penney, and he was still dry when we got there. I thought, "This is it. He's going to have no choice but to pee on this public toilet in this public stall." Nope. He froze. As usual. Nothing. Of course by the time we got home fifteen minutes later, he had peed his pants. Ooops!