Jodi’s World of Motherhood

Things have been pretty busy around here lately. I’m playing on two hockey teams and about to head to nationals with one of them this month. My food storage blog has really taken off (we’re talking 30,000+ visitors per month!). And the rest of life just keeps getting in the way of me updating this blog. Plus it doesn’t feel like that much exciting has happened. Anyway … today was exciting

Mikey’s First Piano Recital

About two weeks ago I decided to let Mikey start “piano lessons” so every day during Lexi’s nap he works with me on his little Alfred Books. He’s been doing an amazing job and really progressing. His biggest excitement was when he got to move from the black keys to the white keys. It made him feel very grown up. He curves his fingers so well, he knows about dynamics, he understands holding different notes for different values, he’s very intense about it, and he wants to pass a song every single day so he can get a Transformers sticker.

Well this morning, my sister (Jessica) and my mom did a piano recital for their students. I happened to mention to my mom how Mikey was doing really well with his piano already so she decided to include him on the recital. First he was really excited, then this morning when he found out he had to get dressed up he told me it was stupid and he didn’t want to do it. Then I told him he could play Wii at Grandma’s house after if he played and did a great job. That convinced him. He even decided he wanted to do it by himself without me doing the duet part. Brave kid. Anyway, we HAD to take a video of him for his first performance so here it is. I sure love this little guy and was VERY proud of him today