More Music to My Ears

Last Friday I wrote about Landon enjoying strumming his Dad's guitars, and today I have another music-themed post. After his interest in the guitars, I thought that I would show Landon a more appropriately-aged toy: the xylophone. His "Aunt" Julie bought a nice wooden one for him several months ago, and up until a month ago I kept it in the box so that I could rotate it in as a new toy when he was ready for it. He has mostly been chewing on it, or banging the entire instrument on the ground, but while we were in Wilmington my Mother and I started showing him how he could play the xylophone with the drumstick.

Yesterday morning he got the hang of it, and I was so proud! He would only play a few bars though before he would start eating the drumstick again. Well when Phillip got home from work last night, I asked Landon to "play some music for Daddy". And this is what he did: played several bars, TWIRLED HIS DRUMSTICK IN HIS FIST, then resumed playing!!!

It's not the first time that Landon has used his twirling skills to show-off. When his great-grandmother GiGi was playing with him over the holidays, he kept displaying his skills by taking out his passy, twirling it, switching it from hand to hand, then twirling it again as he put it back in his mouth - he looked like a cowboy from a movie demonstrating his gunmanship.

I guess he just likes to give his audience a show, regardless of the type of show! For now, I'm just waiting for him to try to enlist a baby roadie and find a smelly old baby van for touring...and getting slightly nervous wondering if he is going to inherit his Aunt Jenni's penchant for removing her diaper and dancing on window sills!!!