Pi-wah-no

I am sitting her at the computer listening to Elyse practice her piano and it goes something like this: "Da, da, da, da, daaaaaa...SNIFF...da, da...SNIFF...da." We went over sharps for the first time yesterday and today she's watering the ivories with large tears. It's like this every time we start a new concept. She's absolutely convinced it'll be impossible to learn and the next week she seems to play it just fine. We need to relearn notes, though. I've discovered she's relying too much on the suggested fingering. Jarom is ticklish! And he laughs on occasion. Our garden in finally producing. We ate the first cherry tomatoes, cucumber, and zuccini out of it yesterday. And to our surprise we've got about five big pumpkins out there. In all our married years, Matt and I have only been able to grow one green pumpkin, so we're pretty excited.