piano times

I love this picture. Tyler is watching Nate intently. It amazes me that at such a young age the little ones are watching their older siblings and they try so hard to copy them.

This is Leanne, our piano teacher. And here is Liam dressed up as a pig during his piano lessons! We have a fantastic piano teacher and our boys adore her. When she comes over after school we all have a cup of hot chocolate and a snack. The boys run around and get all of their "wiggles out."  Nathan and Liam started piano lessons when Liam was almost five and Nate was six and a half. Nate went for 20 minutes and Liam 10 minutes. That worked really well. They practice during the week, but I have to make the time to sit down with them to review what they have learned. When they practice they get rewarded and we do a lot of encouraging.  Some people asked me if I thought that Liam was too young to start with lessons.  I think start them young. It is good for them (especially boys) to sit down and listen to a teacher. It is really nice when you hear them playing a song on their own. Hopefully the love of music will be part of them already at a young age.