What's New With The Carter Family

I love this time of the year! I always look forward to attending Jem's school Christmas concert, and this year we added a Piano Recital to the mix! Here is a collage of pictures from the two events.... I even managed to take a short video of Jem playing his two songs at the Piano Recital....Click on the video below... And another video montage of Jem at his Christmas Concert...Click on the video below...

Ok...before I start talking about this picture let me first say this: It HAS been a long time since I've updated this blog! SIX WHOLE WEEKS in fact! I'm sorry about that. The end of the school year has been (and always is) a C-R-A-Z-Y time of year for us, and as a result, my blogging suffered. But fear not! I'm going to update you on ALL of the exciting things that have been going on with us, The Carter Family, these past 6 weeks. So be prepared for some posts. I think I have about 5 or 6 of them. And I promise to be more on top of 'updating' our family blog in the future! So go on...read away! COUSINS Jem just adores his two cousins, River and Piper. And while River is maturing and getting a little old for the kind of games Jem still likes to play, he has found a happy and attentive playpal in his young cousin Piper. Piper absolutely ADORES music - and her cousin Jem! And Jem is only too happy to have her sit with him and play a few notes on his piano. He is so pat...

Last night, Jem called us into his room....and told us that he would like to perform a 'song' he wrote! What was it called? Well he hadn't thought about that... LOL .... he just knew the keys and knew how to play it. So we listened. It was incredibly cute! I told him that I would print off some music paper and he could write his song down so that he would always remember it. So he did :) Now he DOES know where each note goes, but for some reason he didn't apply it on the above written version haha. He was in too much of a hurry I suppose! And he did come up with a title....Exited (no c) people. I had him perform the song again today, just so I could record it and share it on the blog! To listen to it, just click below.....

A few weeks ago, Jem started Piano lessons for the very first time. He has had 4 lessons so far....and much to my surprise, he is loving it! I thought he would do it, because I wanted him to....LOL....but he's ended up being an eager student and is picking things up quite quickly. Here he is playing the song two of the four songs he learnt during week 3.... Mr Frog is Full of Hops , and Porcupines .

This is what happens when you're an only child - you have WAY too much time on your hands to come up with "fun" things to show mom and dad *LOL*.