Alice's Recorder Performance

Her class was chosen from the whole school to go to a county wide recorder festival.  They performed again at the PTA appreciation breakfast where I recorded this song:

They performed 3 songs but I couldn't get the other 2 to upload.  This one was given to them by their music teacher just the day before - I'm not sure why they needed a third song but this is what they did.

She's standing here next to her friends, Maya and Sarah. She loved doing the recorder. She practiced and was so excited about it!

Cultural Arts Night

Grady and Alice both had pieces selected by their art teacher to display at the Cultural Arts Night.  All we knew was that they had at least one piece.  Grady knew of two different projects that he didn't get back.  It turns out, when he got everything afterwards, he had *3* pieces displayed!  WOW!  Here are pictures of the ones that we knew about.

Ceramic Leaf

Ceramic Leaf

Pencil/Charcoal drawing of the body - he chose an interior view.  You can see the spinal cord!

Grady's 4th grade play

So many things to post - I'm going to try to catch up quickly.

Grady's class put on 2 small plays - Little Red Writing Hood - where Grady was an FBI agent - Fairytale Book Investigators.  They also did a take off on The Wizard of Oz - and he was the Scarecrow. 

At the beginning of the play, they signed and sang Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.

Here are some pictures of him from both plays:

And as a scarecrow:

Alice and Pryor were able to watch the play- it was great fun!



The Arnold Family Singers

The first time they did this was a little bit better - but this is the version I recorded - oh well!

Grady is playing his piece for his piano recital in a few months - still working on it! Alice is singing - trying to keep up as well as she can. Pryor, well, Pryor is contributing in the best way he knows how - comic relief!

Grady's Cub Scout Jamboree Camping Trip

Well - if these are not pictures of happiness - I don't know what are!!

Stephen and Grady are with 10,000 Boy Scouts from the region to celebrate 100 years of Boy Scouts. They left this morning and get back tomorrow some time. Stephen just sent me these pictures - and I think they are worth 1000 words - or maybe 10,000!

Alice in the Murrysville Art Show

Alice has been taking an "Art Camp" this summer by a local former art teacher. She has been working on clay pieces for the month of July. Her teacher told the class about the Murrysville Art Show open to anyone in the community.

She entered three pieces in the "3-Dimensional" student division and won 3rd place for one of her pieces! When we went to look at it today to show Daddy, they gave her the "prize" - a two dollar bill!!! I thought the prize would be the ribbon. HA!! She was very excited!

In this video clip above, Alice explains her piece in detail and her other two pieces.

Grady's First Piano Recital

We had a very big afternoon today! We all went to a nearby church where Grady performed in his first recital. He knew his piece well. He said he was a little nervous beforehand.

Once he got on stage, he was all business! In fact, if you notice at the end, he was just sitting on the bench as if he were going to play another song. Beforehand, we had talked about how he was going to walk down the aisle and start playing as soon as his teacher finished announcing him. However, we neglected to mention he needed to get up as soon as his piece was over! HA! He was ready for more!