Music. Lots of it.

So. School will be starting up again soon. Our local public schools start next Tuesday. Our one-day-a-week homeschool school starts the week after that. At that time, between the three of my boys, we'll have six music classes. In preparation for that, we ventured out today, supply lists in hand, to look. We'd intended to just do some browsing and figure out what we were looking for and try a bunch of different stuff. We ended up bringing home two guitars, a practice drum pad (and sticks) and a recorder. Yup. Lots of music going on here.

Micah will have two music classes...one's a singing and acting sort of class and one is recorder karate. Both big brothers have already taken recorder karate, so he's pretty stoked that he gets to take it, too, finally. He's never actually had an instrument class before and hasn't learned to read music or anything like that. (Both of the other boys took music classes and piano classes when they were younger so had that background already when they started instrument classes at Options.)

In true Micah style, then, after picking up a recorder today (don't get me started on the fact that we already have two or three recorders in the house...the boy wanted one that was *his* and recorders seemed fairly cheap to argue over, lol) he promptly found one of Asher's old recorder karate books, read about how to play and taught himself the first song. He's even got it memorized:

Yeah, really. ;)

Asher will have three music classes...beginning bells (which thankfully doesn't require any purchases by us, as the school will supply instruments), guitar and drumming. He's so excited! Here's his new 3/4 size acoustic guitar:

And here's his drum practice pad:

Given his size, we opted for the 3/4 size guitar (and quickly realized that this limited our choices by a good bit). This one got really good reviews and seems like it'll be a great fit. And, yes, fortunately the drumming class only required this practice pad and sticks. ;)

Noah has just guitar class this coming year (in terms of music classes, that is). He's big enough for a full size guitar but finding an acoustic one that was all black proved difficult. (Yes, I'm slowly coming to terms with the lack of color in the boy's life, lol...though I'm finding it difficult to find solid black or grey clothing for the boy.) In the end, we got (a fabulous deal on) this one:

It's an acoustic-electric guitar so he'll be able to transition more easily to electric down the road (which will be more fitting to his personality and affinity for all things technology, lol). And, as you can see, it's all black. ;) Of course.

Whew. So. That was the musical end of school supplies (but not the end of the music now bouncing around the house, lol). Oddly/sadly/amazingly, the total of the curricula orders I also placed today came to more. It's an investment. :)

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Maybe when Asher is older, if he is still interested in guitar, he can graduate to the one that Nathan and I bought for John many years ago and he has never really used due to an inflexible wrist that he broke as a kid.