Friday, January 30, 2009

Caleb Our Little Mozart

Yes, we still love our little Caleb.
It's been a while since we've posted about little Caleb. He is such a cutie! He was always wanting to play piano songs for our blog and we didn't want it to look like all our posts were always about him, so that is why we created his own piano playing blog.
(It's good encouragement to make him practice too!)

Anyway, he has been doing so well with his piano, that I just had to post a little video on our family blog of his latest song. This is the best I've heard him on this particular song, and we are really very proud. Remember he taught himself to play and doesn't have a piano teacher. I just go out and buy the piano books and he reads through them and plays.

He's even started writing his own music! Just today he showed me a song he entitled "Whistles" that he's got all written out on green construction paper that he plays.

Here's him playing one of Mozart's pieces:



Oh, and he's saying "Thanks Debbie" to our friend Debbie who showed him a particular sharp he was mixing up to make one of the chords sound better than he had been playing. (If he has any trouble we rely on the help of another--I don't know anything!)

Oh, and please anyone that wants to stop by Caleb's blog every now and then and leave him a comment, it really helps motivate him to play!

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Micah Competes in the Pinewood Derby

Tonight Micah participated in the Cub Scouts Pinewood Derby. His car was named "The Green Ghost". With a little help from Daddy and Uncle Michael on the shaping and shaving, and a little help from Mommy on the painting and weight installation, he did pretty well.

Here is a picture from his first race where as you can see, his car is in the lead:

He ended up winning 3 out of 4 races and came in 2nd in the 4th one. He was very happy, and had a great time. His car was awarded "Scariest Car".

Here is a video of one of his winning races:

Monday, January 26, 2009

"Because I Love Daddy"

Troy is pretty lucky. Yep.

Jewelia got this Tinkerbell locket for Christmas and she told me she wanted to put pictures in it. I asked what pictures she wanted and she said, "I want one of me, and one of Daddy, because I love him."

So, sure, no picture of me, but it's OK. I think it is sweet that she loves her daddy and wants to have a picture of him with her all the time.