Sunday...

Today was quite a cool day... We got to church and they had put some of the decorations from the Valentine's dance last night into the Primary room... Well, this was just too irresistible for Joshua!

And Primary in general went really well today! I was starting to teach the children "How Firm a Foundation", which I thought was going to be quite challenging, because it's in the hymn book, instead of the Children's Song Book, and they normally struggle a bit more with the hymns. But they completely blew me away! Little Mikhail was especially amazing. He somehow was completely taken with this hymn. He sang out, and had the words almost completely memorised by the end of the 20 minutes or so that I had with them. I used and idea that I found on someone else's blog, where I used coloured blocks of paper to make bricks, and the words for the song were on all of these bricks. So as we went line by line we built up the foundation, and then we started turning over the bricks when they got to know the words. And there were only 4 children, but they sang louder than the whole Primary do sometimes! It was so fantastic!

And then after sacrament Mikhail came to me and he's been writing out the words out of the hymnbook during sacrament so that he can practice at home! How sweet is that!

We were over at my parents this afternoon... And Joshua just loves their piano! Just look at how hard he's trying to play!

My two boys in their matching shirts...

And then he wanted to play some more...

I think we'll all be very surprised if we don't have a musician here... He is so interested in music. He loves to dance, whether just sitting by himself, or me dancing with him. He's singing with for a lot of things. And people who are more musical than me are saying that he's actually singing the right note... And any musical toys he loves - Paige has a toy guitar that he loves, his xylophone (which he now manages to consistently hit), his toy that plays different tunes... But then it shouldn't really surprise us I guess. I have a strong family history of music on both sides, and Andrew's family is reasonably musical too.

But we'll be guided by him... I want to do the same as my parents did - force us to do music for one year so that we can make an educated choice, and then we got to choose if we wanted to continue. Us three girls did music to matric (and Cindy's planning on doing a BMus next year). The two guys are musically inclined, but weren't into the structured stuff. So Andrew is learning to play the guitar, had drums, can play to piano when he wants to learn something specific, and Richard took singing last year, and he's still singing in my ward choir. So I think my parent's strategy was successful, and that's my plan for my kids.

But somehow I don't think we'll have a problem with this specific child!