Musical Inheritance?

Those were some pictures of Luke and I playing in his LONG tunnel on Sunday morning while Daddy serenaded us in the background with some music and guitar playing....which leads me to the main reason that I'm posting....Landis' dad, Donnie, is a very talented guitar player and singer and has been playing for years. He plays at various (small) events around the city - churches, men's clubs, etc. Several years ago, Landis decided that he wanted to attempt playing the guitar. Landis has always been able to sing well and has always enjoyed music but, until a few years ago, never took an interest in actually playing an instrument. It is amazing how much he has learned and how much better he has gotten since the day he started. Matter of fact, when he first started, I thought I was going to have to hide the guitar because Landis played the first 5 notes of a Johnny Cash song about 450 times - at least! :)

However, thank goodness - now, his playing is quite entertaining. Luke and I often find ourselves playing around the house with him singing and playing the guitar in the background. It's a much better alternative than having the TV on - which you kwow I don't like. :)

As soon as Landis and I found out we were having Luke, we wondered if he would be musically talented and if he would take an interest in music. Well, so far, so good - he loves music - he sings all the time. When Landis gets out his guitar, Luke will ask to play and sing with him.

Landis has a neat set up in the back (music/play) room. He has his guitars and his singing microphone attached to an amplifier. Luke loves to sit on Landis' stool and sing in the real microphone. In the pictures below, you will see him performing on Sunday morning while still in his pjs.....

And, then Sunday afternoon after church....he is performing again, but this time Papaw is here listening in the background and playing his guitar too.




There are some super cute videos of Luke performing several really good songs below - so, stay tuned.

In the meantime, I have a few more pictures to post. Here are some pictures of Luke sitting at the big desk creating his own masterpiece. :)




And, some pictures of Luke being super silly at dinner....his hair is wet because we gave him a bath before dinner on this night....check out silly man....




Before I get to the videos, I want to write about a few things for journaling purposes.....

Much of the video that you will see here was taken on Sunday morning. Sunday mornings seem to bring some of the best times that we have in the Bumgarner family household. Luke is awake by 5:30 (if not earlier) and we never rush to go anywhere because we know that we have church at 10:00, so, from 5:30 to 9:30, we just play and play and play. Often times, Landis is also out of bed playing with us. This Sunday, Luke and I had a blast playing on Sunday morning. We got out the big tunnel that you saw in the first few pictures and had a blast goofing off inside. Luke loved to pretend that I was stuck and he was pulling me out. He also liked for me to stick my head up from inside the tunnel so he could smash down my head. :)

We read his favorite new library book - Chicka, Chicka, Boom, Boom! If you have never read this story to your child - read it! It's a great way to introduce letters of the alphabet! Luke and I have read it 100 times! As we were reading, I also read Luke his nursery rhyme book, which has a lot of tickle rhymes!!! :) We pushed his cars across the table back and forth to each other. We pushed his lawn mower and his popper. And, most importantly, we just talked, sang, and enjoyed each other. I always look forward to Sunday mornings - the quality time makes going back to work on Monday mornings a little easier.

One more tidbit - here are a few funny things Luke has said lately...the other night at gymnastics, Luke was trying to climb the connected ladders way too fast and I said you need to slow down and make sure Mommy is close by so you don't break your neck. Well, after that, for each station we were at, Luke would say, "Don't break your neck." It was funny! :)

The other night before I took Luke to his rocking chair, I gave him his numi (a.k.a. - paci). He took it from me and then smelled it and looked up at me with a funny look on his face. I said, "What does it smell like?" His response - "a fruit snack." :)

And...last thing....for real....Luke and I have been practicing sorting all kinds of things by colors and now Luke has begun to sort things with no prompting. For instance, when I give him a pack of fruit snacks, he will take them out of the pack one at a time and line up the ones that are the same color together. After they are organized by color, then he will begin eating them. Then, this afternoon, Luke was playing with his 6 fish and fishing pole outside. He decided that he wanted to put his fish in the bushes so he could go "fish" them out. I just stood close by and watched him play. Before I knew it, he had 2 blue fish in one bush, 2 red fish in another bush, and 2 green fish in the 3rd bush. He, on his own, no prompting, had sorted the fish by color. Is this a sign of organization??? If so, he got this from me - he may have picked up the singing from his daddy, but the organization, that's from mommy! :)

And, now the videos....

#1 - Luke singing his ABCs in the microphone.

#2 - Luke singing the B-I-B-L-E song.

#3 - Luke playing Landis' guitar.

#4 - Luke singing, "He's Got the Whole World".

Yeah, yeah, I'm bragging again....but, I can't help it...how many kids can sing the entire ABC song at 24 months old???

Check back soon - Luke and I will be venturing somewhere outdoors tomorrow because it should be nice and then Luke has his first dentist appointment on Wednesday so that will definitely be post worthy!

Have a great weekend!

Toddy