Ryan Performing

I hope you enjoy hearing Ryan playing Blackbird by the Beatles. I love his beaming Smile at the end when everyone is clapping for him. Also I was glad that the emcee gave kudos to Ryan for finger picking because it is so challenging. Rock on Ryan!

Ryan's First Guitar Concert

Last night Ryan had his first Guitar Concert. He has been so excited for this! The minute he found out about it, he wanted to sign up. I was a little uncertain because he has only been playing for 4 months and told him he really needed to be dedicated to practicing his song. We had to remind him to practice to get ready and he had a couple notes added to fix the ending just the day before the concert but he did great. He seems to have no fear about getting up in front of people and doing what he loves. That is so impressive to me. (He told me after the concert that it was kind of scary-but he sure didn't show any signs of being scared or nervous.)

It was kind of a late night, but for the first time that the music school did this, it was awesome! They ended up being 45 minutes behind in schedule, but bumped Ryan up so he could play earlier, which was really nice considering that he played at 8:15 and he would've ended up playing at 9pm or later if they hadn't. We enjoyed Pier 49's delicious Pizza while we listened to some really talented musicians. We are so proud of Ryan! I will put his video in the next post!

First Grade Program

Ryan's First Grade Program was a little over a week ago. I figured out how to make school programs enjoyable for the whole family. Get there an hour before the show starts so you can sit on the front row and actually see! You can bet I will be there early for Kindergarten graduation. We practically have this show memorized, since this is our 4th year of it,but it is so cute with a great message on honesty! Ryan wasn't really excited about having to dress up so we were able to compromise with a polo. He did great on his part! They did a bunch of really cute actions to their songs too.