Why You Tube is The Best Thing for Toddlers Ever

This morning we were listening to Milo's orchestra CD, as we do on a lot of mornings, when he said he wanted to see someone play the double bass. In previous eras I would have said something like, "Well, maybe some day we can go to visit the orchestra and you can see someone play the double bass," and by the time I organized such a trip he would already be totally over the double bass and be all, "NOOOO. No double bass. I want to see the French Horn." Or worse, he'd be totally over instruments as an obsession and be like, "Mama, why on Earth would you think I would want to see something as stupid and last Tuesday as a double bass when what I really want to see are basketballs/dinosaurs/snakes."

But we don't live in a world where this is a problem any more.

"Let's see if I can find someone playing the double bass," I said, turning on my computer.

First I went to the New York Philharmonic site, but they didn't have any video. Then to the BBC site, but I couldn't get anything to play.

"Maye You Tube?" I said to Milo, silently wondering if typing in "double bass" on You Tube was going to deliver me videos of naked twins playing bass guitars. But no, what I got was a hundred different videos of people playing the double bass. we watched all morning, and Milo's favorite was a guy with a crazy long beard whacking his double bass with the palm of his hand, making a weird jazzy sound.

Sometimes I love the Internet.