When Meow-meow gets stressed, mad, anxious, tired, or grumpy, we would put on his favorite Youtube videos. It started out with everything Alex Boye, but then he heard Lindsey Stirling and it's been all Lindsey Stirling from there out. We have even created his own Lindsey Stirling channel with all of his favorites. But then we started noticing something, not only did the music calm him down, but he was very attentive to it. He discovered the chopsticks in the silverware drawer. He would take his chopsticks everywhere. At first he would just hold the chopsticks in the air and rub them together. But with more observing her videos, he started putting one chopstick under his chin and using the other one as the bow and would mimic the movements of playing a violin. He called his chopsticks his "violin." Then he started to dance while playing his "violin" "bi-in" in Meow-meow-ees. We noticed that he was mimicking Lindsey's dance moves. Meow-meow knows her videos backwards and forwards, he knows her dance moves and everything.
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| Here he's playing his "violin" and dancing to the musical Christmas Tree. |
As you know, last August we took a trip to California to see Lindsey in concert. We were able to go in for the sound check and Q&A before the concert. Meow-meow was just enthralled by the experience and afterwards Lindsey became even more of a favorite. We listen to Lindsey every day, sometimes even several times a day.
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| This is from the concert in August. |
We knew that Meow-meow needed his very own violin and grandma hunted down one for Christmas.
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| Playing his new Christmas violin |
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| Opening up his violin. |
Well., back in December, we heard rumor that Lindsey (or Winsey Huring in Meow-meow-ees) wrote a book and would be having a book signing. We knew that we would have to make sure that Meow-meow made it to meet her. Well, that book signing was this evening January 19th. The signing started at 6, we got there at 4:45 and the line was already getting long, but we did get a good spot in line. We had told him that he was going to meet Lindsey and it's all he could talk about all day long.
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| Waiting in line to meet her. |
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| There she is!! Got a good shot from where we were. |
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| Getting our books signed. |
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| His eyes were so big with wonder. He couldn't keep his eyes off of her. It was so much fun to see him react to meeting her. |
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| She even signed his toy violin. |
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| With permission from the owner, Firebolt got the violin shes' been using signed. |
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| Selfie with Lindsey. I love how he won't take his eyes off of her. |
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| We even tried to get him to look at the camera, but nope, he only had eyes for Lindsey. |
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| All the way home, he talked and talked about meeting Lindsey Stirling. |
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| What once was a toy is now a collectors item |
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| Firebolt and Meow-meow with their signed violins. |
It was a fun evening. I've read her book half way and it's a really good book, I am really enjoying it!!
