Alyssa Loves Music

During 4th and 5th grade, the students at our school are introduced to music lessons on a variety of different instruments. At about this time last year, Alyssa surprised me very much when she brought a trumpet home from school. She was so excited to tell us how much she loved playing it, and how she was promoted to the 5th grade music lessons. She is very dainty and princess-like in a lot of ways, and the trumpet did not seem to fit her ultra feminine attributes. She played the trumpet all Spring last year and enjoyed it a lot!

After my surprise with her choice of trumpet last year, you can imagine my even greater surprise when she brought home yet a larger wind instrument to play this semester...
 The French Horn, or just plain Horn. It's so huge it hardly fits on her lap. But once again, she has found an instrument that she loves to play.

We've been told by her music teacher and one of Dave's friend's who played the horn in the Iowa marching band that it can be a difficult instrument to play. She seems to be picking it up nicely. She practiced some exercises from her music booklet over the weekend and came home from school on Monday telling me that her teacher explained she was working on the wrong pages..."I am much more advanced than that, and I can move onto the yellow pages now, " she told me matter-of-factly. She makes me laugh ~ she considers herself an expert at just about anything she's participated in for two weeks or longer. Give her 14 days and a challenge, and she'll master it (or at least convince you that she has!)


The little girls are very amused with the horn as well!