Musical Discoveries

So lately both Clayton and I have really been noticing a musical force emerging more and more in Spencer. Now we always knew that Spencer would be either our Rock n Roll Guitar player or our stunt driver. At least something with a steering wheel. Even if it was him mowing a huge lawn in a John Deere for the rest of his life. THE BOY LOVES TO DRIVE anything he can. We caught him driving his book one time to simulate a steering wheel.

However, lately, we have been noticing him with his guitar, strumming it like a professional. When he thinks we aren't looking, he's holding it like a real guitar (according to Clayton "wrong", I say no not wrong, left handed). Spencer is strumming the correct area of the guitar where the strings would be and then you would catch his other hand up top like he is controlling the notes. (Bare with me as I am not a guitar guru and thus am unaware of the verbage of such activities.) I must say the above mentioned guitar is actually a Wiggles guitar therefore there are no actual guitar strings to strum but amazingly enough he knows they should be there.

He rocks out constantly to Hot Potato from The Wiggles, anything that has music attached to it, whether its News, a TV Show or music on the radio. Spencer will stop what he is doing to rush upstairs and fetch his guitar. The pitter patter of his size 8 feet heard above us and you know he is looking frantically for his most treasured musical instrument. He proceeds to come downstairs and rock out, and even includes the famed side leg up while playing that guitar hard. He loves it!!

He will even show you how to play. He wants me to play with him often. Why just today he gave me his other guitar and told me where to put my fingers and how to mimic a real guitar player. "See mommy, I "cho" you." Classic Spencer.

So where does this take us? We want to put him in music classes but everything is so pricey. We want to encourage it of course. So on Monday we are trying out a music class free of charge, thanks to our wonderful friend, Kim, and we'll see where that takes us.