Our latest excitement

At her lesson last night, Emmelia finally got to open her "violin" - a box of fruit roll-ups wrapped in brown paper. She had no idea what was in it, so it was a nice surprise. The idea of the box was to give her something to practice caring for and learning proper technique with before she starts to really make sound. Hopefully she's got the tools now to make nice sounds on the violin so that she doesn't feel discouraged once she starts to play (and a box of fruit roll-ups is roughly the size and weight of a size 1/16 violin). So after that she got to start working on her pre-Twinkle rhythms on her REAL violin! It's only a few bow strokes on the E string for now, but she was so very cutely excited. It was sweet to watch her. Our big girl is growing up. And I feel a new scrapbook layout coming on....