2010 IMEA All State Honors Orchestra

We drove down to Peoria yesterday to hear Ben play in the IMEA (Illinois Music Educators Association) All State Honors Orchestra concert. In the violin seating auditions Ben placed first and so he was concertmaster – very exciting! He had a couple of solos in Red Cape Tango (based on Superman) by Michael Daugherty – here are the excerpts with his solos: Download Red Cape [more]

 
Esther's charcoal drawing

Esther did this drawing last summer in her summer art class. The school liked it and displayed it in the hallway when the school year began. Not only that, they chose it as one of the art pieces to go in the 2009-2010 Academic Catalog! The catalog, which goes to all students, lists all courses available in the next school year. It has student art [more]

 
New Year's cake

We celebrated the New Year with a chocolate cake. Esther made it, came up with the design and decorated it.

 
Crochet projects

I got Esther some yarn and a crochet hook for Christmas so she could learn crochet. We crocheted together: in a few days she not only had learned several stitches but was making up her own flower designs! The photo shows a few of the shapes we crocheted (three are mine, the rest are Esther’s).

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