Day 131 - Music in the Park

Magna does this thing in the summer called Music in the Park. They get bands to come play. Well, this year it was different. They had music/movie in the park. So the band would play first for an hour, and then they show a movie right after. That was the best idea they ever had! They had so many more people show up for the band, because basically they were opening for the movie. Ha!

Today, Clint got a call and was asked if he would play this evening. The other band that was going to play got laryngitis, and they asked 6 bands but they all kept saying no. By the way, the person in charge of getting all these bands is the drummer in Clint's band. So Clint and his two fellow band members played at music in the park tonight, and this was the first time they had played/practiced in a year! But they actually did pretty good, considering they hadn't practiced for a year. Clint had fun, Jonas had fun, and it was really nice to get out of the house.

They "opened" for Wreck It Ralph, so there was a HUGE audience! Clint said it's the most people he ever played for. Good times!

 

There was a bouncy house for any kids that came. Since we got there early to do a sound check, Jonas was one of the first to play before the hoards of children came. Good thing too. I don't think he could handle all the chaos and the jumping. He's still getting used to jumping and climbing on things. But he had fun playing in it.

 

And by the way, Jonas is almost 2 1/2. He'll be 2  1/2 in October. But he has a hard time climbing up the ladder type things at the park. Is that normal? I just feel like I see younger children than him climbing up everything at the park, and he struggles. He's great when it comes to fine motor skills, or talking and learning, but I feel like his gross motor skills (the bigger movement type things) are a struggle for him. Just wondering if that's normal. Maybe it's because he's the first child and doesn't have older sibling to teach him how to do it? I don't know..