Sunday, January 30, 2011

Carrying on Traditions (1-27-11)

I can't remember when it started, but Cash has seemed to always love instruments, Beethoven, Mozart, and music in general. I remember once when he was almost 2 we were in Costco and they had a display of musical books. I pressed a button and as the song began to play Cash says "Mommy that's Mozart!" The lady next to us just stared.

Cash's instruments cover most the families, but he has mentioned that he doesn't have a saxophone. With drums in the garage, a guitar, accordion, and many others he often hands out the instruments and has us play "band" with him. A few months ago he got a violin and "practiced" maybe once a week. Grandma found out about the "Suzuki" method of teaching young students how to play the violin and we found a teacher nearby. Tonight was his first lesson. He was very comfortable and talked a lot. He seemed excited to play and when I asked if he wanted to go back again he said "Yes Please!" I felt a little pride in that I also played violin for a few years in elementary school and now Cash can carry on the tradition.


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Tonight before Cash's lesson the boys carried on a long tradition held by Cash. It consists of finding kitchen tools in the cupboard drawers that make the loudest noise possible! Not necessarily my favorite choice of activities, but the boys seemed to happy playing together.
Why bang the tools when you can eat them!

Baby Ryan spends a lot of time "trying" the things he finds in his mouth, pretty typical. But he also KNOWS when he is not getting to eat something everyone else is. He screams at the dinner table if his food is not the same as ours, we can only guess that is why he screams because he is instantly placated when we give him a spoonful of our food. Tonight it was snack time and Baby was a little upset he didn't get a bite of dad's cookie. 

Hey mom gave me this cookie, took a picture, then snatched it away!


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