Like a candle

As noted, we tend to get very little information from the boys about school. Connor is actually even more reticent than Jamie, although we recently learned that he has two buddies at school named Claire and John. Claire, he tells us, sometimes whines, but John does not. Neither, he says, does Connor. In the car the recently with Sarah coming home from school they both busted out singing a song they must all be working on called "Light a candle." It is a very St. Catherine's song. Jamie can do it all the way through, but Connor just loops the first verse, changing "light" to "like". Without anything to stop him, he will go on singing "Like a candle for peace, like a candle for love, like a candle for the whole world," more or less indefinitely. Inevitably, when one sings the other wants to as well and they begin fighting so the sounds of "Light/like a candle for peace" are mixed with the increasingly angry protestations of first one child and then the other. It's quite moving.

Connor is actually quite the performer. Last night as we sat down to dinner, he suddenly announced, "I have to go sing in the hallway!" So he marched off to the other room, where we could hear him singing "Like a candle" to noone, and then came back in and sat down.

The Kielt clan in particular will also be curious to know that whenever he has pants and no shirt on he begins dancing around saying "Hot stuff! Hot stuff!" You see at one of the children's spectacular shows in Punta Cana Connor's group appeared on stage, shirtless, with red pants and were instructed to dance to the song "Hot Stuff!" Most did nothing and Connor stood there with his woobie and pacifier looking bewildered, leading to much hilarity. Guess he just needs to decide on his own time and place for Hot Stuff!