Torah and Andrew

Today Andrew discovered how much fun it is to pull Torah's hair. These two cute kids have so much fun together. Torah adores her baby brother and loves to make him laugh. 

 

Pink Violin

Addy has wanted to learn to play the violin for the past two years. We kept telling her she could learn once she started 1st grade and could take group violin lessons offered at school. Although the school class is beginner violin, the kids are up to fourth grade in age and many have already taken private lessons. The pace of the class moves quickly, so we found an awesome teacher for private lessons at home once a week as well. We found a pink and lavender violin with flowers on it, and I can't even describe how excited she was! She adores her violin and is always so careful with it. So far she loves learning to play and it makes us happy to see her stick with it even when its hard. 

Addy's first lesson with her awesome teacher Eric

Learning different notes

Rest position

Learning proper chin placement during 1st lesson

Torah watching Addy's group lesson from the window

She couldn't resist joining the class for a few minutes

Addy with her school instructor

Around Manila

It looks like she is sitting in piles of garbage, but those are actually huge bags of buttons and she's helping me pick some out for doing crafts.

The Palms Country Club

             A couple weeks ago we spent the afternoon swimming at my friend's beautiful country club. This place is so gorgeous. It is located about 30 minutes outside of Manila where the air is cleaner and the skies are bluer. Andrew swam in a pool for the first time and loved it. It was such a fun and refreshing day.