Music
Turning the volume up on music lessons
Jordan is in her second year of piano and recently graduated from her beginner book. It’s time to take her skills to a new level. But that’s when her teacher asked her the question: Does she want move to the next level learning in a one-handed piano-playing style or does she want to continue with her…
Read More +Music Continues to Rock
Jordan is now into her second semester of piano. It is so cool to watch her figure this out. Her teacher has been so cool about helping Jordan learn how to read music for the right and left hand. She has found a consistent collection of beginner music that only needs one note at a…
Read More +Performing Piano for the First Time
I flew home into a snowy St. Louis scene on Saturday after a bit of a flight delay with one goal: Get to the kids to see their holiday piano recital. This was a pretty big deal because Jordan has never performed on the piano in public before. The recital was a holiday show for…
Read More +Learning one-handed (and one-arm) piano
For at least two years, I’ve told Jordan to wait until second grade to start piano lessons. That’s the grade her brother started and I promised it’s when she could jump in. So two days into second grade, she got to take her very first piano lesson. On our way to her lesson, Jordan was…
Read More +Rockin' to Springsteen (aka Jordan's First E-Street Concert)
Jordan’s dad is a huge Bruce Springsteen fan. His first show was in 1984… Since then, he’s seen The Boss 40+ times. It only seems fitting for our kids to experience a Springsteen show during their youth. Cameron’s first show was when he was six years old… So we decided to let six-year-old Jordan and…
Read More +Born This Way
It’s what Jordan tells people all the time when they ask about her arm. For a while she’d say “I was borned this way.” That was really cute. So this morning, my newsroom was buzzing about the new Lady Gaga song. I figured I’d hear it eventually. I knew the name of it was “Born…
Read More +Festival Fun
We continue to have amazing adventures each weekend. This weekend we spent time with our friends Tim and Renee and their awesome son and enjoyed a ton of music at St. Louis’ inaugural LouFest music festival. Randy and I have gone to a lot of music festivals in our time together… But we’ve never been…
Read More +The little things just stun me
I’ve noticed some tiny but amazing things about Jordan lately. First, she’s certain she can do anything… And I mean ANYTHING. Most of the time she’s right. She can put her pants on and off all by herself. She can take off all of her own clothes. She climbs stairs of any size. She can…
Read More +Cool!
Look!! Look!! I dropped Jordan off at school during music time. The kids were banging on drumsticks to the beat of the music. The teacher handed Jordan two sticks, so my little girl dropped one of the sticks into her prosthetic hand and started banging onto the stick. I took pictures because it was so…
Read More +I'm fried
The combination of election coverage and Randy not feeling well this week has left me running out of steam. But a couple of neat things have happened this week: Last night Jordan, Cam and I went to Cam’s school for Music Night. First graders and Kindergarteners got to show off the cool stuff they do…
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