Let's Play Music

Three years ago Sarah started taking music lessons from "Let's Play Music".  It's a great three year program introducing young children to music in fun ways.  Sarah's done very well in it, but there have been times we wondered if she'd ever complete the program.  For example, there's been a lot of driving across town to Miss Emily's house for lessons, so we're grateful to friends who have gone out of their way to take her to lessons when we weren't able to.  Parents have an active role in the program and have to be there for some of the lessons, so we're grateful for babysitters who have watched our other children on days when Liz had to be there with Sarah.  Not to mention the numerous times Sarah got frustrated when she couldn't learn the songs right away and didn't want to practice anymore.  She's such a perfectionist (takes after her parents) and we debated whether it was worth all the backtalk and tears to keep her in music lessons while she's so young and with everything else going on in our lives.

But Sarah stuck with it (as did we), and on Friday night she wrapped up her three years with a recital where she played a song she composed herself to a large gathering of parents and fellow students.  We were so proud of her!

Sarah's recital

Sarah's song is called "Snowflakes".  Sarah's teacher emailed us an mp3 of it a while back so we could hear what it's supposed to sound like.  When Liz played the mp3 for me I didn't know what it was at first and said, "That's a pretty song, who wrote it?"  She gave me this incredulous look and replied, "Sarah did."  "What?! Let me hear that song again!"

Watch Sarah's performance of "Snowflakes"

After the recital we gave Sarah a bouquet of purple flowers--that made her beam!  She also received a song book with all of her fellow classmate's original compositions.  She's trying to learn some of them and is already starting to write more of her own.  Upon seeing the purple flowers Whitney asked Sarah to teach her how to play her song so she can get flowers too!  Unfortunately we don't feel like we have the bandwidth to put Whitney in Let's Play Music, but she is definitely showing an interest in learning to play music and we hope to put her in piano lessons before too long.

Our kids had another snow day on Wednesday, the first day of May.  In the course of one week they went from playing in the snow, to playing in the sprinklers, to playing in the snow again.  That's Colorado for you.