Nicholas has finished off 1 full year of Golf lessons at school already, and he just received his certificate for having passed Blue level.  When I went to pick Nicholas up after his lesson, Coach Takako actually told me that Nicholas has improved tremendously in recent weeks (to my surprise) and recommended that we consider […]

We received a lovely invitation self-written and decorated by Nicholas himself for a performance given by the M13 class on May 23d at 1:20pm in the school cafeteria. We arrived before 1pm to get a good seat, but all the good seats and benches were all taken by the time we’d arrived, so we […]

Wesley’s spring program went off without a hitch, and both Alex and I were so proud and happy to see him in his element during the entire performance. The 15-minute program took place on Monday 10:30am, May 14th in Room A5, and the program began with a quick speech by the preschool director followed […]

Nicholas participated in his first official National Piano Playing Auditions today at his piano school.  His teacher had him play 2 songs memorized: Suzuki’s French Children’s Song and Joseph Haydn’s Quadrille.  She also had him practice tons of other things like chord variations, arpeggios, and the like in anticipation of the judge making him do […]

Yesterday evening when I went through Nicholas’ homework folder, I saw quite a few drawings by other kids stuck in there as well. Since the kids’ names were written on those drawings, I figured that it just happened to be misplaced in his folder until Nicholas told me that he held a drawing contest […]

Sandra and i headed over to the Swim School this morning at 8 AM for Summer signups and boy, the line was way out into the parking lot.  This was just for picking up a number with a designated time slot to come back. I guess their summer session is pretty impacted so this is […]

While Wesley was away at his friend’s birthday, Nicholas and I along with Aunt Julia went to Golfland instead. We played 18 holes of miniature golf and played 60 tokens worth of games in their arcade before heading out to dinner at one of our favorite homestyle Persian restaurant: Chelokababi.
Golfland - Nicholas had a […]

Alex took Wesley to his friend Aryaman’s birthday party at his home and Wesley had such a great time. He’s been to lots of birthday parties before, but this one was really special for him because this was a party for his own friend from school. Aryaman invited several friends from school, and the rest […]

Our entire work department was treated to a Friday afternoon showing of Spiderman 3. i think at least 6 of the 20 theater cineplex was showing this movie, and our auditorium was completely packed at 1:30pm. There were a lot of young kids in the audience too… I guess this is one of those […]

Staccatos - Perfected technique. But still has a bit of trouble when used in conjunction with Legatos throughout a piece.
Chords - is a master at the basic C Chord combo, but has trouble with other variances. Just needs more practice on memorizing these finger/note shifts.
Rhythm - Pretty good for the most part, but […]

Just in the past year or so, Nicholas has really come to use his art as an expression of his care for others. He really enjoys his coloring contests in extended care, and the teachers tell me that it’s usually him or another girl that wins all the time so they have to vary […]

Wesley has Ms. Lucinia this session and he’s been working hard on using his legs.  Wesley’s kicks are pretty wacky, but he has a good time doing it or so it seems. At this point, he only kicks from the knees down, but eventually he’ll get the hang of it I guess.
Nicholas has Ms. Rebecca […]

Ever since Wesley’s huge turnaround in behavior at school, things have been pretty smooth all around. He still gets a hiccup here and there, but nothing that really “alarms” the teacher much. Unfortunately, yesterday became one of those days we all dread. Wesley decided not to participate in music practice for the spring program and […]