Lijah's Scales

There is a pianist that Michael and I like named Jon Schmidt – he composes some really pretty music, and his performances are really fun because he gets the whole audience into it, and he always plays a song where he will cross his arms and play or lay on his back on the piano bench and play upside down. My teenage brother, Aaron, also likes to play Jon Schmidt music on the piano, and when Aaron came and visited us this summer he played a song upside down (while sitting on the floor facing away from the piano with his arms reached back up over his head to the piano keys). Lijah thought that this was just about the coolest thing ever! So, every so often since then Lijah will ask us to come watch him play the piano. At first he would practice his songs kind of leaning down on the piano bench. Then a few weeks ago he called me in to watch him playing his scales with his eyes closed. And this afternoon he showed us that he could play while sitting on the ground in front of the piano.