My Music Man

Jared is (literally) surrounded by books and toys, and yet some of his favorite toys remain his musical instruments. His first musical toy was a recorder. He was around 8 months old and LOVED realizing that he could do something to produce SOUND. Since then he has collected a random collection of musical toys, including a drum, maracas, a play piano with microphone and drum machine, a tamborine and recently a harmonica. He takes them very seriously.

Here he is "singing" into the microphone that goes with his play piano. Occasionally he gets a bit overzealous with his singing. I think he believes it will get louder if he eats the microphone.

Sometimes his microphone just doesn't cut it anymore, so he goes for the big guns... Daddy's karaoke microphone! Again, he takes his singing very seriously. :)

This week he figured out how to use the harmonica and loves to pass it back and forth with Dad. In general he loves to take turns with his musical instruments. He will play a few notes, pass it to you, and when he thinks you've played long enough he will take it back!

"Mom, can you pass me my sheet music for the Elmo theme song? Lalalala Lalalala Elmo's World!"

Playing his instruments makes him VERY happy... he may LOOK like an athlete (as evidenced by biceps at the age of one, haha) but our boy is quite the little musician too!