Jonas

I took Andy to the Jonas Brothers concert on Sunday night. I know, what an awesome mom, right? At least that's what people kept telling me. My friend, Mike, is a HUGE fan, and uses his daughter as an excuse to go to the concerts. They just happened to have two extra tickets because the concert got moved and the other two people couldn't go anymore and I jumped at the chance to go. I thought it would be fun to take Andy and do something just the two of us, which we don't get to do very often anymore.

I know it sounds like I made a big sacrifice, but I actually like the Jonas Brothers. Their music is fun and upbeat, not too teeny bopper, except that Andy used to ask me why all their songs were about love and girls, and easy to sing along to. They are great roll models for my kids and you never hear about them getting in trouble. The only thing I don't like about the Jonas Brothers is Joe's relationship issues and how he handles his love life, he keeps breaking up with cute, sweet girls like Taylor Swift and Demi Lovato out of nowhere and breaking thier hearts, but he's only 20 so I'll give him a break and chalk it up to life's experiences. Plus, I only know what I read in the tabloids so I may be missing a few details.

It was a pretty good concert. The opening band wasn't really an opening band but a group of kids performing songs from the new Disney movie Camp Rock 2 Final Jam. We haven't seen it yet but have seen enough of the videos on Disney Channel that we knew most of the music. We were most excited to see Allison Stoner, who plays the voice of Isabella on Phineas and Ferb. If you've never seen that cartoon you are totally missing out. Brilliant. Demi Lovato was also there and sang 5-6 songs. Most of them sounded like jaded girlfriend songs, which would make sense since she was recently dumped by Joe Jonas (see, relationship issues), but it was so loud in there I couldn't really hear all the words. Or any of them. But Andy was excited to see her and see some of the Camp Rock songs.

The intermission wasn't long, but too long for a seven year old. When the Jonas Brothers did finally come on they played for about an hour and a half. They sang my favorite song, Andy's favorite song, Mike's favorite song, we were all happy. I was able to sing along with most of it since we've been listening to the CDs in the car. Of course, there were lots and lots of screaming girls at the concert. Big ones, little ones, lots. For every boy you saw there were at least 20 girls. Did I mention lots of screaming. Even then, we still had a good time. Andy enjoyed his first concert (unless you count the Wiggles, and at the time he definitely seemed to enjoy that more) and I'm glad I could take him. A totally different experience than when my grandma took my brothers to see the Rolling Stones and everybody in the audience was smoking pot, but that's probably a good thing.

On our way out Andy asked me if we could go to their next concert. I told him I'd be happy to take him again, as long as he paid this time.