Yo, bro

My brother keeps asking me when I am going to update my blog page. I think he is pulling my leg and does'nt really check the page. It has only been a few days since my last post...six days is still "few" right? Since our Rock band purchase, Nathan has totally been getting into the whole drumming thing. He is obsessed with finding the beat in every song. Our car rides are not the same. He is constantly saying, "Mom...LOOK, I got the beat!" As he is Air drummin like a mad man! He shows me his drummin skills on a daily basis. He is actually quite good. It has reminded me of my brother Rob. Any car ride with him was a toe tappin experience. I am not sure how his steering wheel ever survived all of his "jam" sessions, and how we never got in a car wreck when he barely had his hands on the wheel. I can still hear him pounding out his drums all...the...time...and he was even out in the barn. Don't get me started on the electric guitar! And then his whole band thing. (Every guy wants his own band, and they were good too) I have to say though, I didn't mind the band thing so much, because the members of his own band were totally "hot". (80's word). Good times. Goooood times.

Not so Rockstar-ish

As a follow-up to my I'm a Rockstar post I thought I would add a little special something. In one of our jam out sessions, Jonathan got a little busy himself....with a marker!!! Here are just a few samples of his artwork.


I have since found more masterpieces on top of my kitchen table, down the hallway (however, I did find him scrubbing my hallway down with the toilet brush today! Ga-ross!) and on my white bedsheets. Ya know, the kind that I actually saved up money for to have that striped sheik look, since I never make my bed, the sheets need to look nice. Man...who is "Wanted...dead or alive" now? I guess I'll have to remember that I still have a toddler and I need to be a responsible Rockstar. :)

I'm a Rockstar!

I am a total Rockstar now. For Christmas we as a family got Rockband for the Wii. We figured it was something that we could totally do as a family. And let me tell ya people, it...is...totally...awesome. We are having so much fun with this thing. Trent does the lead vocals, and Nathan and I switch off between drums and guitar. It is taking me a while to get use to playing them, because you don't strum on the exact beat, it is when the colored rectangles move across your screen. That part drives me crazy, and I consider myself somewhat musical, but I have to turn that part of my brain off and not concentrate on strumming exactly to the beat, but strum to the rectangles. It is tricky!

I wait for Nathan to get home from school now so we can have a mini jam session before his homework starts. Nathan loves that part, because he will do absolutely anything to put off doing homework and practicing the piano. My favorite song is Wanted, Dead or Alive. I can rip that up on vocals baby. Nathan will just laugh and shake his head as I am jammin and pullin out my 80's dance moves as I sing. It is some precious family time I tell ya. Jonathan even hits the drums sometimes, or strums the guitar in our session. He wants to be just like us. We are pretty awesome. Rock on!