Julia recorded this video on Mother's Day, the same day as the other one that I posted earlier. Beside hearing and seeing Julia, I like that our normal life is going on around her as she plays. Quincy and Grant both walk through in the background and I yell up the stairs to remind everyone to get ready for church.
Now that the school year is nearly over, it seems like every teacher is trying to fit in one last field trip or big project. This "Renaissance Fair" presentation was one of the bigger and more complicated ones and boy! are we glad to be done with it! Since the kids were working with another student, the most difficult aspect of it was just finding the time for them to work together. They needed to have a presentation, a poster board and a 3-D representation of their topic. 
Grant and Tre decided on Secular Music in the Renaissance. They made a paper mache lute and Grant played Greensleeves on the piano as part of his presentation.
Quincy and Tiffany's project was on the art of Leonardo da Vinci. Tiffany dressed up as the man himself and Quincy was the Mona Lisa. Their 3-D presentations were paintings of Julia done in the style of da Vinci since they just couldn't quite reproduce one of his actual paintings. (These are technically only 2-D, but I think they won't get marked down for that.)
Julia had her birthday party yesterday with eight of her friends from school. We decorated picture frames and played games. I'm exhausted now, but I think she had fun, so it was worth it. Next week, for Julia's real birthday, things will be much more low key.
Julia took a few videos of herself playing the piano. I love watching her face as she plays and the way she interacts with the camera.
The following videos encompass the complete version of Concerto Romantique played by Grant. The first video was recorded by Julia, the second one Grant recorded by setting it on the side of the piano, and the last few were recorded by me. I like that you are able to see different views while he plays... his hands, his face, his whole body which shows his pedaling, and a more standard upper body view.
I know, I know... I probably shouldn't even have plastic bags in my house. It shows how many times I have run into a store only to realize that my environmentally friendly, but incredibly elusive reusable bags were still somewhere in the car, probably under a couple of jackets, an old granola bar wrapper, and someone's incredibly important homework sheet that was due yesterday. But, in my defense, the blue one showed up in my mail box for a food drive. Guess we wont be putting any food in that bag.
A food for the hungry tank top.
Take me to Target tube top.
Old lady in babushka and vest.Isn't there some kind of warning against allowing children to put plastic bags on their heads? Ooops!
