Ida vs. Cat Stevens vs. Yusuf Islam

As part of a child-rearing experiment too esoteric and experimental to go into, I began to expose Ida and Miki to large doses of the music of Cat Stevens*. This has been more popular than I had expected, especially on Ida's part. While she will still request the "Greatest American Hero" theme song ("Believe it or Not!"), she is mostly about Cat. Or, as he is now known, Yusuf.

Then I made the questionable decision to check it all out on youtube:



"What's Cat Steven's cat's name?" Ida asks.



Her favorite song is "Where Do the Children Play"; she calls it "Jumbo Planes," however.



"The curtain went up! All his friends were behind there!"

"Baby Matthew likes Cat Stevens, he's her guy; Yusuf is my guy...but I like Cat Stevens."



"That's his friend, playing the contar! Go back to Yusuf. I like Yusuf. I like the way he looks. Good."

(*if one were to listen to Cat Stevens's "Gold," you'd realize, as we have, that he wrote pretty much all of the songs, including those attributed to the Beatles, in the twentieth century. Unbelievable.)