Nathan gets his glasses

Here is the new Nathan.He can see!

Moonlight Sonata

Here is another one by Beethoven. Moonlight Sonata
 Caleb is getting better at this one every day.

Back to School 2014

Nathan is going to public school for the first time.  He will be in 1st grade.
Caleb is returning to public school for 4th grade.
David will be attending 8th grade at Jc McKenna for 2 morning classes and doing the remaining classes virtually via JEDI.

Caleb plays Fur Elise both movements

Every day I hear Caleb play this song. 

This isn't part of his normal weekly lesson practice. 

This is just the song he likes the most.  

Although he did have his teacher help him on some parts,

 most of this Beethoven piece was simply "figured" out by listening and replaying over and over. 

 It isn't perfect, but it sure is beautiful. 

Listen to the end where he plays the last 3 chords with emotion.  

Pure joy to my heart.

Ice Cream Truck

We used to have an ice cream man come each week to our street.
This year he never came, but lo and behold another ice cream truck came the last week of summer break. Boy were we glad to see him! It was hot and muggy and we were stuck indoors. (We were getting our house roof replaced.  No playing in our yard for a week as the shingles and nails came raining down.)

Small things like an ice cream treat from the music playing truck makes for a wonderful summer memory.

Caleb conquers his fear of the diving board

Months of back to back swim lessons are paying off. 

Caleb just passed his swim class with flying colors.
He has been leery of jumping off the diving board for a long time.
On the last class he finally worked up the courage to jump off.
 His teacher was so good. She wasn't willing to take no for an answer.
She simply told him to rise to the challenge. He did!
Here is the video  ( he is the second boy) :

Caleb pitches little league

It was a week of firsts for Caleb.  (The next post will have details on a swimming first.)

Caleb finally got his chance to pitch for one inning for his little league team.  He struck out 1 boy swinging and he grabbed a grounder right at the mound and threw to first base in time for the  "OUT "!  He was jazzed up over that play. He was feeling pretty important last night.

He has come a long way from watching airplanes while in right field.