Mario Mania

"Mommy, can you play the Mario theme on your violin?"

"What?"

"You know..." The little guy belted out the tune in his nice six-year-old voice.

"Hold on," I said. "Let me get the violin."

Somehow I managed to produce the tune, not quite perfectly, but good enough for the little guy.

A little while later he came in holding some styrofoam concoction with a pencil going through it.

"What the heck is this?" I asked.

"A Mario propellor hat."

"Oh."

Even at school, he draws Mario pictures all over his papers. I think it's an obsession. I don't know if I should laugh or be worried.