First piano recital

I taught Ian to play the piano up until this August. One advantage of me being his teacher was the only cost involved was buying him music. One advantage of him taking lessons from someone else is he was able to participate in his first recital. It was a duet recital. In February he will participate in his first solo recital. The boys performed The Waltz of the Flowers on Saturday evening. All of the pieces in the duet recital were by Tchaikovsky. Paul's dad came to the recital and then spent some time at our home. He beat Ian in a game of chess and played a Mario game on the Switch with all three of his grandkids.

Yesterday Nadia and Ian sang in the Susquehanna Valley Youth Chorale's fall concert. They sang in this group in 2019 and 2022. The group was on hiatus in 2020-2021 due to COVID. The group was much bigger in 2019. Because they had fewer students, the concert had a LOT of solos. Neither of mine tried out for a solo so they spent a lot more time sitting in the audience at this concert compared to the other two fall concerts. In 2019 it was a patriotic theme (for Veteran's Day). Last year they performed music that was about music (ex. Do, Re, Mi). This year it was all Disney music. They accidentally omitted Nadia's name from the program. Ian needs to OPEN his mouth more, and both kids need to work on smiling. Nadia did smile during when they sang the original Mickey Mouse Clubhouse theme song. Paul's dad came up for the concert. One of Nadia's small group leaders and two girls from her small group also came to the concert. Nadia left with them because her group went to Olive Garden for dinner tonight. Pop Pop came back to our house. I gave Pop Pop and Oliver each a haircut. Pop Pop used our foosball table for the first time. He beat Oliver, and Ian beat Pop Pop. 

Thursday night the kids and I met Cheri at the movie theater where we saw the (musical) movie "Journey to Bethlehem." On Friday night, Paul took Oliver to Lancaster Bible College for a concert featuring Jordan Feliz and Colton Dixon. Ian had his piano recital on Saturday evening, and Nadia and Ian had their choir concert yesterday afternoon. Paul went to work today. Oliver and Nadia were home all day today. I took Ian to his piano lesson. Tomorrow Nadia will again stay home all day. I'm taking the boys to an orthodontist appointment. We don't have any plans to leave the house Wednesday through Saturday.