Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Monday, May 30, 2011
Friday, May 27, 2011
Monday, May 23, 2011
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Saturday, May 21, 2011
Friday, May 20, 2011
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Mozart: Theme
A while ago, I mentioned that Hannah had convinced her piano teacher to let her work on Mozart's "Ah, Vous Dirai-Je, Maman", commonly known as the "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" tune. She has been working on it for many months now and has learned all twelve variations. Now she is working on perfecting the speed (fast!) and perfecting the trills. I recorded the whole song but thought that 23 minutes of piano playing might be too much for one blog post so now we are recording them as variations. I am so proud of how much hard work Hannah has put into this and my new advice for parents whose kids may not want to practice is to let them choose the song. Fortunately, we have an incredible piano teacher who let her choose this difficult piece and had faith in Hannah that she could accomplish it!
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Old Friends!
Our friends who moved to Pittsburgh after Mason finished preschool are moving back! It was so fun to watch the girls play as though they had not missed any time at all! Dylan took to his new friend immediately as well! We are so happy that they are moving back!
Friday, May 13, 2011
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Swimming!
This guy's swimming lessons have really paid off. For the first time, he swam all over the pool with no life jacket, deep end included!
Tuesday, May 03, 2011
Play Rehearsal!
This sort of reminds me of when Mason was in Kindergarten. Some time during the middle of Kindergarten year, I started getting calls from parents to let me know that they would love for their child to participate in our after school book club (at my house). Since I had never heard of such a thing, I started looking into it and it turns out that Mason had made invitations at school and passed them out to friends. The invitations were for a book club at her house. Of course, I had to go along with it and we had a nice little bookish afternoon.
This time, she has written a long and actually quite entertaining play, so entertaining that lots of friends want to participate. I had no idea how to go about putting on a play with so many characters right here at our house. So, Mason put the whole thing together, organized a read through after school and showed up with nine girls, who, surprisingly enough, were able to curtail the giggling and actually read through the play (for the most part). I guess we'll see where it goes from here. One of the amazing parts of watching your kid grow up is seeing them put things like this together. I am very proud of her!
This time, she has written a long and actually quite entertaining play, so entertaining that lots of friends want to participate. I had no idea how to go about putting on a play with so many characters right here at our house. So, Mason put the whole thing together, organized a read through after school and showed up with nine girls, who, surprisingly enough, were able to curtail the giggling and actually read through the play (for the most part). I guess we'll see where it goes from here. One of the amazing parts of watching your kid grow up is seeing them put things like this together. I am very proud of her!
Monday, May 02, 2011
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