Erik’s piano recital

Last week Erik had a piano recital! He has been learning to play the piano since last April, and he has finished his first piano book. It was so neat watching him play all eight songs that he had prepared for the recital. He was very excited and pretty pleased with himself when it was over :) Good job Erik!

The book he finished was Level 1A, and his new book is 1B…so he tells anyone who will listen about his new 1B book. Most people probably can’t figure out what he is babbling on about 1B and 1A. It’s kind of funny ;) And he tries to show his friends his new books and show them all the things he is going to be learning. I don’t think they pay too much attention, but I am sure glad Erik is so excited about piano and learning new things!

Here are all the cute kiddos at the recital.

The song Erik is playing in the video is about Halloween. Notice how the second verse gets lower so it sounds spooky. :)

And a big thank you to Erik’s piano teacher Camille for teaching him piano and having us all over to her house for the recital!

Saint Patrick's Day, etc.

What did we do on St. Patrick’s Day? We all wore green :)    And Erik had a field trip to the International Wildlife Museum that day too. Alex got to go with Erik’s class, and they had a fun time…or so I hear. I should have pestered them to take the camera, but I forgot, so no pictures.

Tyler wouldn’t sit with his brothers for a picture…he only wanted to sit on my lap.

Lately Tyler really likes to sit (or stand on the chair) at the table and draw with a pencil or crayon. We have to watch out what papers we leave lying around now. He likes to rifle through whatever papers and magazines we have sitting on the table and draw on as many as possible ;)

And here’s Adam hugging a toy puppy. He thought he was pretty cute and wanted me to take a picture of him!

Erik took a nap today. When he woke up his hair looked like this. Hehe.

Open, shut them, open, shut them…

One Sunday morning I took a few pictures :

First picture – eyes open…

Second picture – eyes shut…

Third picture – eyes open…

Fourth picture – eyes shut!

So 50 percent of my pictures of Tyler will have eyes open?

Then I tried to get a picture of Adam…hmm…maybe not :)

And somewhere in there I got Erik too. I believe he was discussing this red magazine rack of his. He was telling us how he needs to take it with him when he grows up so that he can “organize himself.” Haha, that’s my Erik…thinking ahead to the future. :)

Mountains and Sky

Two weeks ago it snowed in the mountains.

And one week ago we took pictures of a gorgeous sunset.  At one point during the sunset there were pink clouds in every direction around the horizon. Then the clouds opposite the sun started fading in color, and the side where the sun had just disappeared got really bright florescent orange and pink…like you see in the picture. It was very cool.

a haircut and a binky

Tyler got a haircut.

He looked so cute, but the picture would be cuter without the binky in front of his face.

So I tried to accomplish this…

As you can see, it didn’t work out so well.

Then I gave the binky back, and he was happy as a clam. Tyler’s just like Adam was at this age…loves that darn binky.