Little Violinist

Ever since the kids were much younger, they have LOVED the Little Einsteins show on the Disney Channel. The show is about these little animated kids who go on journeys with their rocketship and it is all set to classical pieces of music and art. They teach the kids about all the classical pieces and their composers and the scenes in the background are of the different art pieces. When Isabella was around 3 years old, she began to notice every time a violin was played in each episode. Then, she began to notice a violin playing in other music she heard everywhere she went and would get really excited about it!

She began to ask for a violin to play on last summer, so we waited to see if her interest changed to something else before we started looking for one. Last year for Christmas, she was totally surprised to find a violin especially for her!
(side note: notice how Elijah wants NOTHING to do with Christmas!)




We had bought the cheapest one I could find for $25 and she played it all the time never losing interest! So, this summer, one of the gifts my parents gave her for her 5th birthday was.....vioin lessons! It took us a while to find a teacher who would teach a child so young, but a few weeks ago, she began her violin lessons!

We brought the violin that she got for Christmas to her lesson and quickly found out that it was something that "real" violinists call a V.S.O (violin-shaped object)! So, she had to be measured for her very own violin that we rented (you do not want to know how much they cost to buy!)and these pictures are of her getting fitted with her new violin at her teacher's house!

A little shy, a little nervous....but a whole lot of cuteness!!

You can see her "old" violin has been "retired" for display on top of our piano.

I must say that she is the most adorable little violinist I have ever seen! And, she is so proud of her new teeny-tiny violin!