Music and caterpillars

I always seem to be making my entries a day late so I am gonna try to make two today and get caught up.

We had music again yesterday and Musa is loving it. He really enjoys the teacher. He is constantly practicing his songs. He has been muttering the "lamb of David" for two days and it is now stuck in my head. For those of you that know my spiritual background and beliefs you can imagine how funny that is. Musa says the obsessive gene that has been passed onto him has helped him memorize songs. Too funny.

Retta on the other hand is a statue durnig music. She absolutely cannot move. She stands next to Musa and stares straight ahead. She told me she gets too hot. She wants to try again next week but if it still appears so agonizing for her I will have he stop. She loves to sing and dance at home, but this seems a little much for her.

On a different note Musa found some huge web like things covering some branches on one of the trees in our driveway. Upon closer inspection, it sort of hard to see because it is high, they appeared to be "tents" made by the classic tent caterpillars. There were hundreds of little catterpillars crawling all over the tents. The really odd thing was, we noticed that every couple minutes the caterpilars would all stop, lift up thier heads, (or butts, hard to tell the difference) and simultaneously shake them back and forth, as if in a dance. It was fascinating. We went on line and read up on tent caterpillars but no where did it mention this behavior. So we wrote to the U of Maryland and asked the entomologists, if they could provide any additional info. Haven't heard anything yet. Will update when I hear.