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Tuesday, September 21, 2010
A Mozart in the making? Not quite, but he sure surprised mom …
Our oldest son has reached the age where he is beginning to show interest in activities.
With three kids and limited time, I was planning to stick to the rules my parents adhered to when I was a kid: 1.) No more than one activity at a time 2.) School work and acceptable grades come first
Needless-to-say, I have already broken the first one.
Noah took a liking to Martial Arts last spring. He did well in it, but there was no way he was going to miss out on spring baseball, so we allowed that, too.
This summer, it was swimming lessons and now we have come full circle with the start-up of Martial Arts again.
Wanting Noah to expand his horizons, we also signed him up for piano lessons.
He loves music and could hardly wait to go to his first lesson.
I made it through maybe a year of piano lessons before I freaked out at a recital and refused to go on stage. That was the end of my piano career.
I have higher hopes for Noah though, as he never ceases to surprise me.
We went to his first lesson where the teacher asked him if he knew how to play any songs on the piano.
“Yes,” he answered.
I gave him a skeptical look, thinking, “Banging on the keyboard at home is hardly playing a song.”
But, I didn’t say anything.
He proceeded to poke at the keys and said, “I can’t find the right tone.”
“Tone? How does he even know that word?” I thought to myself.
“Oh, here it is,” he said as he began to play “Mary Had A Little Lamb” with his index finger.
And he played it correctly!
I nearly fell off of my chair.
It’s a far cry from Mozart, but I was quite proud of him and ashamed of myself for doubting him.
By the end of his lesson Noah was playing some simple tunes with ease.
We practiced through the week and he did well at his next lesson, too.
If he makes it through a recital one day - and now, I do not doubt he will - maybe we’ll even invest in a real piano.
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