Wow, prouder parents couldn’t have been found yesterday…it was Ethan’s first piano recital and he did it perfectly! We were admittedly a bit worried about the whole thing because he woke up with a nasty cough and a bit of mischief in everything he did. He didn’t have a great time at Music Class in the morning…wasn’t listening, and was acting silly while they did a dress rehearsal. He ended up losing the Ipad for the remainder of the day as a result. Randy came home from class very frustrated with him.
So we had a good couple of ‘talks’ and made him practice his piece a few more times and set some rewards for good behavior up. We got dressed up and off we went. I won’t lie and say that he was the best behaved kid there but he wasn’t the worst. He was a bit quiet and almost sulking for most of it. I was disappointed…it wasn’t how I pictured it to go. Once it got started though and he saw other kids he knew go up and perform he knew what he was doing. When it was his turn to go up he went straight up to the microphone, said “My name is Ethan Grounds and I’m going to play Little Helper for you today” just like we had practiced. He went to the piano and carefully placed his hands, played his piece, got down off the chair bowed his head and came off the stage perfectly. He wasn’t smiling or bubbly, more quiet and focused. But he did it and we were so proud! I won’t lie, I cried! (We’ll blame the pregnancy hormones).
So here are the pictures of his day…we got all dressed up in a new outfit complete with little dress shoes for the event!
At the church where it was held they had a ‘real’ piano…I was a bit worried that it would throw him off since he plays on a small keyboard style piano at Music Class and a keyboard at home but he had no problems at all with it! They did their group song first where all the kids in his class from the whole week got together and played a little song using instruments.
Then when it was his turn he did his solo piece! You can click on the pictures to open and see the complete album!
Is that not the most freaking adorable thing ever?!?!
They finished off the recital with the entire Music Class keyboarding students singing their good-bye song..he really likes this song!
He got his reward…a trip to play at the Multiplex Jungle Gym area and Bugs & Cheese for supper from Boston Pizza. It was a great day and we all had lots of fun! His next one is in May sometime…I can’t wait!
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