From Piano Recital June 2009

Erika is in her second year of Suzuki Paino now. This is her 3rd Recital which takes place at a church about 30 minutes north of where we live. It’s a good time to see the kids get dressed up and then perform in front of a room full of family.

Her learning is still all visual and auditory. She has started to learn some notes but no reading songs from books and playing them yet.

First up… ” Go Tell Aunt Rodie”

After the intermission Erika is up again with “Little Playmates” - She looks back for that connection before the song and then after is smirking because she was proud of herself… as was I.

Here are a few of the photos I shot before, during and after including a class pose. Way to go Erika!

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Erika was the leader today in her Gymnastics Presentation. She did a great job considering when the music came on it was not the routine song they practiced to. Way to go Erika!

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Erika had her friend over last night for a sleepover. It was after 10pm and I could here some banging around in their room so I wandered in with the video camera and caught this…

Another Concert under Erika’s belt. Celine Dion put on a huge show here in Toronto and Erika & Mommy had a unforgettable evening.

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This is Erika playing the entire song of Barracuda by Heart on our Wii - Guitar Hero. She loves to rock.

Erika and her mom headed out to see James Blunt last night in Toronto at the Sony Center. It was Erika’s second time seeing this performer and it looks like they had a great night.

Party at Erika’s house. Lots of girls, crazy food, crazy moms and some High School Musical! thanks for all of my presents everyone. Love erika

Erika and Justin were playing around in the back yard today on the swings and I was able to snap a photo of Erika having fun jumping off.

Erika’s school did christmas cards this year where they used their own artowrk for the card and had them printed to give out. Here is her creation. Looks pretty good.