Sunday, October 20, 2013

New piano and rekindled excitement about playing

We treated ourselves (kids) with a new piano to replace that old antique piece.  We realized when the kids woke up from the nap and saw the new piano delivered that it would be worth every cent:  they immediately wanted to play it.  Nikolas was most excited about it, although he has been the one most against continuing piano lessons lately.  Just today he played his songs 4 times (I only asked him to play once).  He was amazed that all keys worked :) and he loved the sound coming from it.  He was persistent in getting his songs right when he made mistakes, and I didn't even have to say a word, he just kept playing on his own even when he got frustrated at times.  I loved it.

James loves crawling everywhere.  He surprisingly doesn't stuff things in his mouth the way Nikolas and the twins did.  He'll grab things to look and them and to feel them with his fingers but won't necessarily want to chew them.

He has a very 'adult' look in his eyes.  Today we went back and forth saying 'dada' and 'gaga' to each other while he held that look as if we were having a dialog

Tuesday, October 8, 2013