Borster's biolin lesson

I'm a whirlwind of crazy busy over here, trying to get everything ready for the families to descend for Thanksgiving this week.  But I could never skimp on Solei's violin lesson - so after school today, we took our usual few minutes and worked on her new song.

Side note - her new song is MINUET 3!!  That's the third to last song in the Suzuki book 1!!  I have taken my sweet time with her progress and I'm still all pins and needles about her technique, but every now and then I stop and look at what she CAN do and I'm baffled we've managed to make it this far.  The Suzuki method ROCKS!

So when I asked her to put her violin away, Forster ran up to me yelling hopefully "Borster's turn??  Borster's turn biolin and mouse house*??"  How could I refuse?  I had Solei run to get the red circle rug I used to give her lessons on (a portable learning space) and tried giving him a wee lesson on bowhold and sang some bowhold songs while he tried to not poke my eye out.  Or unsuccessfully tried to poke my eye out.

It was so sweet and precious!  I am more and more aware every day how how vastly different the two of them are and how skewed my ideas on education are from having a visual/aural learner/genius first.  Whatever successes I may have had with Solei are NOT a given with Forster and I have had to let go of the expectation of him reading at age three or playing the violin and piano - we're taking it one day at a time and seeing what he is capable of and interested in.

But I can't say I wasn't THRILLED to give him a wee violin lesson, just the same :)

*I'd shown him how to make a bowhold last week and had called the inside of his hand a mouse house  - just to keep the space open so that a mouse could run in and out.  Apparently he'd remembered!