Ethan is currently infatuated with Blue’s Clues (he’s a Steve guy), but most notably the “Mail Time” song.
For those of you who haven’t seen the show (get yourself a kid and watch it, it’s fun), when the mail arrives, they sing a song that goes something like
Here’s the mail it never fails it makes me wanna wag my tail when it comes I wanna wail MAIL!
There’s more to the song, but that’s the important part, because Ethan spends quite a bit of time each day singing (and by “singing” I mean “indulged yelling” because he’s so adorable when he does it): “Make me wanna wah my tail — MAAAAAIIIILLLLL!!!”
During which he’ll frenetically shake his head. And arms. In fact, most of his body. And running around. (By the way, at what age do you lose the ability to run around while wagging your head frenetically without either falling down or throwing up or getting a raging headache?)
Note to self: video tape this to play at Ethan’s wedding rehearsal dinner as part of emotional film montage to lead up to teary speech which will probably end with “I love you man” followed by a firm embrace.