Tuesday, November 9, 2010

one of the joys of parenting

If there's one thing worse than listening to your new violin-playing child practice his new violin...




...it's listening to two new violin-playing children practice their violins. Our friend TJ is staying with us this week while his parents are out of town, and we have to do this for 10 (or did the music teacher say 20?) minutes a day?!??!

Sweet Jesus, have mercy on me.

P.S. In case you didn't recognize that song, it was "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star." Don't worry, your hearing's not going bad. It sounded nothing like "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star".

P.P.S. The violin may not be Mac's strong suit. He seems to have a penchant for harder rock.

2 comments:

Steph J. said...

Hahaha! No, worse is listening to your 3 and a half year old learn to play violin. Excruciating. Last year Stephen announced that "it's going to get pretty loud around here Mom, with me playing the trumpet." But the wrong note on trumpet sounds like a wrong note. A wrong note on a violin sounds like...I don't know...a dying cat, maybe.

It gets better, though Stephen still loves to see what kinds of sounds he can get out of his violin.

Steph

Unknown said...

Rock on Mac!