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This town is so small that the schools do not have orchestra. At first Noelle said that she did not want to switch to a band instrument and that she would just get private lessons so she could keep playing the cello. Now she realises that one of the things she enjoyed most about playing an instrument was the time she spent with the other kids. So she talked to the band director and he said that they do not start band until 5th grade here so she is only one year behind. He said that since she already plays an instrument it should not be hard for her to catch up if she really practices.

So yesterday James went and rented her a clarinet. The angle her bite is at may make it hard for her to play so we decided to just rent it for a month and then if she can play it ok buy one next month. Noelle said that she still wants to keep practicing the cello on her own so we will keep the one we own.

She started practicing right away yesterday. The book the school uses has pages in the beginning to teach kids how to play so she read it yesterday and already taught herself a bunch. She is so excited now about how easy it was for her to start learning a new instrument so she asked James to start teaching her guitar again. She was even talking about learning as many instruments as possible and becoming a teacher. I have not seen her this excited in awhile.

Yesterday ended up being a pretty fun day. School was closed because it was so cold out. James got home from work around 2pm and the rest of the day was spent with the kids trying to play music. While Noelle practiced the clarinet in her room James set up the guitar, amp, and karaoke in the rec room. Nicole and Neona got very excited and now they want to get their own guitar so they can learn too.

So that was added to the Wish Book