We took Logan and Shay to the Olbrich Botanical Gardens on Sunday afternoon where they have free concerts in their common room. This week it was the Calico Drifters, a three-person folk band. We arrived early and secured seats in the front row as the band was warming up for the 2pm performance. The lead singer had a beautiful silver dobro, which of course immediately caught Logan's attention, and whenever the singer wandered back out from the backstage area, Logan screeched, "Here comes the dobroman!" – much to everyone's amusement. He enjoyed the band for about half an hour, intermittantly pointing out to everyone in the near vicinity what the musicians were doing next ("Now he's getting his guitar!") before we took a quick stroll through the garden's conservatory.
I find Logan's love of music to be quite fascinating, especially considering we never made a conscious effort to nurture it aside from playing CDs often and taking Logan to see a few live bands. It hasn't been like reading, which I've been determined that Logan WILL LOVE, come hell or high water. I've been reading to him since he was an infant and he continues to adore books—one of my greatest pleasures is seeing him take a book from his shelf and sit down to look at it by himself.
So the music thing is cool because it comes from him rather than us—he let us know after seeing that bluegrass band that he wanted to know more. His latest venture is playing "marching band" where he wears his drum around his neck and marches around the apartment playing it. A true joy at 6 in the morning, oh yes. But far be it from me to stifle my child's marching band inclinations.
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