Monday, January 15

piano recital


ellie and jack were able to participate in their first piano recital last saturday. we are thrilled with how far they have come since starting piano lessons the beginning of september!



their teacher moved here this summer from florida and we feel so lucky to have her teaching jack and ellie! she is extremely talented, both as a pianist and as a teacher. she is very understanding, but also has high expectations for the kids and doesn't let them slack. i think it's a good combination for both the kids. she required each student to play at least one song from memory but challenged them to play both from memory, which jack and ellie did.


they did an amazing job at the recital! there were quite a few people there, so they were both extremely nervous, but they did awesome! one funny thing that isn't in the video (thank goodness!) but that i dont want to forget (although ellie wishes everyone would!) is that as ellie walked up to the front, the bottom of her skirt was tucked up and her backside was showing hahaha! but she had leggings on so it definitely wasn't as bad or as embarrassing as it could've been!

saturday was a really busy day for us, between a basketball game, the recital, cleaning the church building, baking treats for the recital, and the list goes on. but the kids found some time to relax and have fun. i took these pictures when i looked over and saw my two artists working with their favorite mediums: pencil and legos :)




2 comments:

Larissa said...

Beautiful pieces you 2!!! I kind of had nerves just watching that, I HATED recitals so so much. But they did an amazing job, thanks for sharing!

Rikki Faustini said...

Yaaaay! I loved watching the recital! What a great job they both did. Ellie's hair is getting so long and Jack looks like a mini adult!