Our Violinist

Our 5 year old Miss M loves music and is fascinated by musical instruments--especially the piano and anything with strings. We enrolled her in a Suzuki violin program a little over a year ago. She has a fantastic instructor who really knows how to connect with children and keep them interested. She has one group class and one private lesson every week, which we attend as a family, and she practices for 10-30 minutes most evenings with her daddy. We often play the Suzuki CDs as background music while riding in the car or preparing dinner. We take a pretty casual approach, and try to make it a fun activity, not a chore. It seems to be working--she looks forward to lessons and when it comes to practicing, she enjoys it so much that we're usually trying to convince her that it's time to put away the violin and get in the bathtub. Here are some pictures and video from her spring recital. (Please scroll down and pause (II) the background music before playing the video)