So, I had to record Kolby playing the new piano song that he learned this week, Merrily We Roll Along, just because Michael and I were so impressed that he could actually play a recognizable song with the right notes and correct timing and everything after only taking two lessons. I was only planning on recording that one song, but after I started recording, Kolby wanted to play the song three times (he is supposed to practice each of his songs three times a day), and then play the two songs that he learned before this one. After I finished recording him, he wanted to watch the video, and then he asked me if I would put it on the blog. Pretty cute! I think it's so fun that he enjoys practicing the piano, I'm really glad we started these lessons for him. He has his third lessons this afternoon, and he is excited to hopefully move on to learning the letters that go with each note (the first three songs he has learned in this piano book have numbers assigned to the child's different fingers, so they can learn which fingers go on which keys). Kolby has asked us several times to explain the letter notes to him that he sees on the next few songs in the book, but we keep trying to get him to just practice the songs his teacher assigned him for this week and let the teacher teach him the notes when she thinks he is ready. We'll see if that happens at his lesson today, or maybe next week. Now the hard thing will be to find a teacher that is as good, as inexpensive, and lives so conveniently close to us when we move to New York next year and Eli will be ready to start lessons too. (Eli has already asked me about piano lessons and has started his own little "piano practice" sessions some days when he pulls out the primary Children's Song Book and pretends to play the songs in it). And now Camden has even started to "play" the piano too -- the older two boys have enjoyed "playing" the piano for the last few months whenever we have family home evening, so they just play random notes and we sing the words of a church song -- and the last couple weeks Camden has insisted that he be able to play a song for family home evening too. It's fun to see the kids actually enjoying this -- I guess there really is something behind the idea of starting kids out young, because I remember not enjoying practicing my clarinet when I was in middle school and high school (and I never got very good at it because of my lack of practicing). Maybe if we start them all out when they are around age 5 and they think that practicing is still fun, then by the time they are older and might otherwise want to avoid practicing, maybe they will be good enough at playing the piano that they will actually enjoy it by that time. We'll see how it goes, but for now it is pretty fun to watch Kolby learning and liking it too.
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12 November 2008
25 August 2008
Swim Lessons
Here are some pictures I took of Kolby, Eli, and Camden a couple weeks ago on Camden's 1st day of swim lessons.
31 March 2008
The Next Survivor Series
I got this e-mail from my friend, Emily Christensen, and thought it was very cute -- this is a reality show I might actually watch:
The Next Survivor Series
Six married men will be dropped on an island with one car and 3 kids each for six weeks. Each kid will play two sports and either take music or dance classes.
There is no fast food. Each man must take care of his 3 kids; keep his assigned house clean, correct all homework, and complete science projects, cook, do laundry, and pay a list of 'pretend' bills with not enough money.
In addition, each man will have to budget in money for groceries each week. Each man must remember the birthdays of all their friends and relatives, and send cards out on time. Each man must also take each child to a doctor's appointment, a dentist appointment, and a haircut appointment.
He must make one unscheduled and inconvenient visit per child to the Urgent Care. He must also make cookies or cupcakes for a social function. Each man will be responsible for decorating his own assigned house, planting flower s outside and keeping it presentable at all times.
The men will only have access to television when the kids are asleep and all chores are done. The men must shave their legs, wear makeup daily, adorn himself with jewelry, wear uncomfortable yet stylish shoes, keep fingernails polished and eyebrows groomed. During one of the six weeks, the men will have to endure severe abdominal cramps, back aches, and have extreme, unexplained mood swings but never once complain or slow down from other duties.
They must attend weekly school meetings, church, and find time at least once to spend the afternoon at the park or a similar setting. They will need to read a book and then pray with the children each night and in the morning, feed them, dress them, brush their teeth and comb their hair by 7:00 am.
A test will be given at the end of the six weeks, and each father will be required to know all of the following information: each child's birthday, height, weight, shoe size, clothes size and doctor's name. They will also need to know each child's weight and length at birth, time of birth, and length of labor, along with each child's favorite color, middle name, favorite snack, favorite song, favorite drink, favorite toy, biggest fear and what they want to be when they grow up.
The kids vote them off the island based on performance. The last man wins only if . . . he still has enough energy to be intimate with his spouse at a moment's notice.
If the last man does win, he can play the game over and over and over again for the next 18 to 25 years, eventually earning the right to be called ‘Mother.’
The Next Survivor Series
Six married men will be dropped on an island with one car and 3 kids each for six weeks. Each kid will play two sports and either take music or dance classes.
There is no fast food. Each man must take care of his 3 kids; keep his assigned house clean, correct all homework, and complete science projects, cook, do laundry, and pay a list of 'pretend' bills with not enough money.
In addition, each man will have to budget in money for groceries each week. Each man must remember the birthdays of all their friends and relatives, and send cards out on time. Each man must also take each child to a doctor's appointment, a dentist appointment, and a haircut appointment.
He must make one unscheduled and inconvenient visit per child to the Urgent Care. He must also make cookies or cupcakes for a social function. Each man will be responsible for decorating his own assigned house, planting flower s outside and keeping it presentable at all times.
The men will only have access to television when the kids are asleep and all chores are done. The men must shave their legs, wear makeup daily, adorn himself with jewelry, wear uncomfortable yet stylish shoes, keep fingernails polished and eyebrows groomed. During one of the six weeks, the men will have to endure severe abdominal cramps, back aches, and have extreme, unexplained mood swings but never once complain or slow down from other duties.
They must attend weekly school meetings, church, and find time at least once to spend the afternoon at the park or a similar setting. They will need to read a book and then pray with the children each night and in the morning, feed them, dress them, brush their teeth and comb their hair by 7:00 am.
A test will be given at the end of the six weeks, and each father will be required to know all of the following information: each child's birthday, height, weight, shoe size, clothes size and doctor's name. They will also need to know each child's weight and length at birth, time of birth, and length of labor, along with each child's favorite color, middle name, favorite snack, favorite song, favorite drink, favorite toy, biggest fear and what they want to be when they grow up.
The kids vote them off the island based on performance. The last man wins only if . . . he still has enough energy to be intimate with his spouse at a moment's notice.
If the last man does win, he can play the game over and over and over again for the next 18 to 25 years, eventually earning the right to be called ‘Mother.’
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