Beans!

Emily officially finished all of her Twinkle Beans last night. That represents 600 repetitions of variations on Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star. She was very excited. I told her that I wanted to capture the moment, and she promptly turned off the living room lights and turned on the single light over the fireplace to create a spotlight effect. :)

Here is the video that we took. When it was done, though, she wouldn't even watch it. She declared that she was unhappy with it and told me that we were going to try it again, but this time she would tell me what to say so that I would get it right. So, here is the revised video:

Slightly different, but not much. For whatever reason, though, she was much happier with the scripted version. Regardless of the version, I am sure that you can sense her satisfaction with this milestone. Next, we will have to schedule her Twinkle Recital as a way to celebrate all of her hard work. She is very anxious to make that happen, but I suspect that it will be a few weeks before we can get it lined up for her. In the meantime, she has already learned the next Book 1 piece, and begun learning some new technique that is necessary for the subsequent piece.

Aside from violin, Emily is very excited for Spring Break next week. We have had a busy few weeks, so I think that she (and the entire family) is looking forward to doing a whole bunch of nothing for a little while. Two weeks after Spring Break, we are taking the girls to Disney World for a week. I'm sure that I'll have lots to report when we get back from that!