Anthon the Musician

There are some things you just know your kids were born. In Anthon's case, his love for music was manifest in the womb. Shelley said he would go crazy whenever we went to the Hollywood Bowl or listened to good music. We went to a Ben Folds concert within the last trimester and I think the bass stunned him - he didn't move the entire concert.

Day by day, we're amazed at the most recent manifestation of this love for music that Anthon was seemingly born with. The other day as we were getting ready for church Anthon blasted his CD of The Three Tenors (his favorite CD, no less), strapped his little-drummer-boy drum around his neck and was walking around beating the drum in time with the rhythm as if he were in "The Music Man." But it doesn't stop with classical music.

Last night I came home from work and he was singing, "Hey Hey You You I Wanna Be Your Girlfriend" by Avril Lavigne. I can assure you that wasn't on my iPod. And he customized Fergie's "Big Girls Don't Cry" by saying, "Big Boys Don't Cry."

There's plenty else...his favorite song is a Broadway show tune - "Popular" from Wicked. After dinner every night, he "plays" the piano by banging on the keys. He sings himself to sleep most nights. Shelley's begun teaching him how to play the piano via the Suzuki method. Anthon's Nana and Papa gave him cymbals and a harmonica which he loves. (The harmonica we love...the cymabls, not so much.) He likes to pretend to lead the music at church. It goes on and on.

Anyway, click on the link below for a video of Anthon trying out to be in Avril Lavigne's back up band.