Right before we got ourselves all ready to go, D was outside wedding the flower-picking-butterfly garden. I had just gotten Miss all ready and he came rushing in all excited about something...
Do you see that? It's probably the teeny-tiniest-little praying mantis EVER. AMAZING. He found it on his shirt and we were all enthralled by it.
Miss A was even excited to try and hold it and not smash it! We were very proud of her.
And after we put the praying mantis back, we jumped into the car and headed off to violin lessons right away!
Miss A's instructor is a former colleague of mine and she's just an amazing performance artist and musician! She has assured me that Miss A isn't too young to get started but we are definitely going to have to do a lot of practicing and work with her to teach her the important things like not touching the bow hair and getting it all greased up.
The good news? Miss A was a little shy to begin with but was able to be brave and hold the violin (with assistance and do one of her first major motions which was learning how to pluck the strings!
Before Miss A will be able to use the bow with the violin though, we have to help her learn the proper posture.
It starts with holding onto the violin body in a specific way, lifting it high above your head, and then in one fluid motion, putting it under your chin in a specific way.
Miss A's greatest challenge so far? Not giggling and feeling ticklish under her chin/at her neck when the violin is there. She could barely stand having it in the correct position because she was so ticklish.
We'll work on it with her but in the meanwhile we are just excited that we have been blessed with the means to get her started with this. Hopefully we will have many more encore blog postings and eventually a video of her playing "Twinkle twinkle little star" at one point!
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