We just got home from a very enjoyable evening.
Isabelle had her first violin concert. She has only been taking violin for a few months, and I think she's doing pretty good.
She loved hearing all of the advanced students play their parts.
It gives you a goal to work towards.
Here is Isabelle with her teacher Mrs. Macias.
She has been so patient with Isabelle and we love that she doesn't underestimate Isabelle just because of her size/age.
Isabelle made a new friend while we were waiting for our turn to go onstage.
She really had fun playing with so many other students.
There were over 50! Of course Isabelle was still the smallest.
I think she is just going to have to get used to that for the rest of her life!
Here are most of the songs that she played at the concert.
After the concert we met Soungsik and William at IHOP to celebrate.
I asked her what she wanted for dinner and she told me "KFC".
I said "I was thinking of someplace a little nicer than that."
So she responded quickly "How about McDonalds then?"
Clearly we eat at "nice" restaurants a lot.
We went with extremely fine dining with the IHOP decision.
I am so happy with all of Isabelle's hard work and practice.
Violin has really challenged her, and even thought there have been a few tears here and there, she never gives up. And after all of the practices and tears she still loves it. She has been begging me to play the violin since she could talk. I hope she keeps that desire in her for a long time to come!
