Guitar Popper

As you no doubt recall from the videos Marcus posted last week, Emrick is fond of singing “Twinkle Twinkle, Little Star” and the alphabet song. Well, on two or three occasions, Marcus has gotten out his guitar and played and sung those songs for Emrick. Emrick has long known what a guitar is (although his pronunciation is something like “too-tar”), and he likes to strum the strings while Marcus plays. But he has never seen either one of us “air guitar”, nor pretend to play guitar on some other object (no tennis racquets around here). So what you are about to see is entirely the product of Emrick’s own imagination.

Emrick has a little push toy called a “popper”. It’s one of those vacuum-cleaner-like things with beads inside, and when you push it, air enters the inside and causes the beads to pop around like popcorn — only about ten times as loudly. It’s not too annoying, unless you’re trying to watch TV, talk, or think. But no matter. The other night, after a guitar session with Daddy, Emrick found a new use for the popper.

Emrick picked up the popper, held it like a guitar, and started singing “Twinkle Twinkle, Little Star” with it. Every time I think this kid could not possibly get more awesome, he does something so surprising and delightful that I can hardly believe it. My Pookie bear, The Duke of Pook.

His guitar hold isn’t always correct. And he hasn’t settled on whether he plays right-handed or left, but somehow this child still makes magic happen with his guitar popper.

Obviously, we see a toy guitar in Emrick’s near future.