Music Time!

Music is SO good for kids on so many levels:

Patterns, Rhythm, Fast, Slow, Loud, Soft, Controlling your body to use the instrument, Playing together, Creativity to play whatever you want, etc. etc. etc!!

River with Baby Summer

Silver, Summer and River

We are BIG music fans - pulling out the instruments whenever we can!

I bought a Kindermusic teacher's books on ebay - so it has been fun to teach the girls out of the fantastic Kindermusic program.

If I could do anything as a career I would :

*teach little kids music.....check

*teach kids piano...........check

*landscape....................check

*teach preschool...............check

*librarian and do story time.....check

*teach children's art...............check

*teach children about Jesus.....check

Aaahhhh, Being a Mom is So Great!

Summer, Daddy, Silver and River

I started teaching River piano lessons right after she turned 5, and before she started Kindergarten.  We were doing well until Kindergarten started.  K was full-day and quite an adjustment for her.  It started to not be a positive thing for us.  I decided we would wait until she was 6 and it worked out so much better - she could read and know what hand was right and left.  It was worth it to wait another year until she was ready!  She LOVES piano now.  She sits down with me for 15 minutes a day and is playing really well. She loves making up her own songs and memorizing the ones she learns.  She made a new friend that is a piano performance major in college.  She played River a song, and River was VERY impressed as her fingers flew on the piano.  River makes her fingers fly too :)  What a great example and motivation to River that 15 minutes a day can turn into a great gift.

VIDEO:  Mommy and River playing the piano.