Our Little "Music Man"

I had to share Luke's current obsession. Instruments!! He has a Baby Einstein movie called "Meet the Orchestra" that he loves to watch. But it isn't enough to just watch it, he has to pretend to play all of the instruments. The other day he picked up a medicine dropper/plunger of Ty's and began to play it like it was a flute. Then he found these plastic toys of Ty's and began to crash them together. He said, "look Mama, symbols." This gave me an idea. So Luke and I went around the house and found things that we could make into intruments. He now carries these with him from room to room. Plus he knows all of their names. Drums, tuba, flute, clarinet, violin, trombone, trumpet, symbols. And if you watch the movie with him he can name almost anything. He also identifies instruments that he hears in music that we listen to and on T.V. and other movies. It is so cute. Music really inspires him. He loves to dance and he LOVES to sing. All of his nursery leaders comment on how many songs he knows and how well he sings them he knows the words and he actually, truthfully sings on key-we all know he didn't get that from me. This morning was the best. We were all in the family room (Jake hadn't left for work yet) and Luke was watching one of his favorite shows,"Ni-hao, Kai-lan", and he was singing along to one of the songs. But instead of singing the words that he knew, he inputed the names of his instruments he was playing with. So instead of singing "Calm, calm, down" he sang, "trumpet, tuba, trombone" but to the tune of the song. Jake and I cracked up laughing. It was adorable. We are really trying to foster his love of music. As you can imagine it makes his Daddy very happy to see Luke gravitate to something he loves so much.