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Hi. I'm Amanda...a happy wife and mom to three awesome guys. We've lived here in Fort Collins for more than 20 years and are proud to call it home. Before moving to CO, I worked at a city attorney's office, making use of my law and Master's degrees from Duke. After settling in Fort Collins, I homeschooled my three (now teenage and older) sons and was delighted to experience music classes, soccer, karate, swim team, archery, Science Olympiad, First Lego League, parkour, and climbing (not all at the same time!). From 2005-10, I was also a contributing editor for a national scrapbooking magazine, authoring a book and a couple of monthly columns. From 2009-10, I founded and ran the Good Grief Blog. I enjoy learning new things, spending time with my family, volunteering with The Matthews House, traveling and indoor rock climbing.

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Thursday
Dec132012

Musicality.

Apparently, my boys are quite musical. Asher and Noah take guitar together at LEAP once a week. They're usually pretty darn good about practicing regularly on their own, too. Last Wednesday (12/5), their class invited parents to come watch their "guitar jam"...basically a rehearsal for yesterday's winter program. Unlike the winter program, though, each kid also got to do a solo piece. Noah did one called "Grand Finale" and also a duet with his best friend to "Au clair de la lune." Asher did "The Star Spangled Banner." It went well. :)

Last night, at the winter program for LEAP, all three boys performed. Micah started things off singing a medley of patriotic songs with his Sound of Music class:

Yes. He's the only boy in a class of 9. He's good with that...thinks it's kind of cool. :) They sang seven songs together and sounded surprisingly decent. :) Later, he also performed a number of songs with his smaller recorder class. Again, two thumbs up!

Noah performed just with the guitar class and just the group songs, but still had a good time:

And, Asher was quite a busy boy. He performed with the guitar class. Then he performed with the drumming class, interspersing their pieces with the recorder class and playing on the xylophone, an African drum and snare drums. Then he performed with the bells class, picking up extra parts for some of the songs since their class is rather small:

Overall, it was definitely the best winter program we've attended yet (this being number five for us with Options/LEAP). 

Reader Comments (1)

Impressive! I wish I could have been there for the program, etc! gma

December 14, 2012 | Unregistered CommenterNan

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