Lydia is now learning to play the trumpet; our house is now regularly filled with toots, bleats, squawks, peals, warbles, blaats, honks, and other dulcet tones from her horn. She is making good progress and it enjoying the classes; the teacher that Amy picked out for her is almost ideal for her learning style. Lydia has learned a couple of simple songs and likes to roam around the house with her instrument looking for opportunities to play for her brother and her parents, to wit:
Good stuff. Her goal is to get good enough to play the theme from "Wallace and Gromit".
Random scribblings about life in our family. This blog was started back in 2008 when we moved to Cambridge (UK) for a year.
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A blog post about our recent "Tour de Croissant" bike trip (Geneva to Sete, following the ViaRhôna EuroVelo 17 bike path), orga...
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A blog post on my recently completed hiking trip on the John Muir Trail . [Author's note: my apologies in advance for the length of thi...
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A blog post for our recent trip to Milan to catch some of this year's Winter Olympic Games. Amy has been dreaming about the idea of att...
