New things drop into our lives unexpectedly lately. I was surprised to notice that L is pumping his little legs on the swing. He likes a little push to get going, and he’ll keep swinging for ages. Today he worked it up so he was swinging as high as K. Both swinging so high, laughing and talking and imagining adventures they were flying through.
When did this little guy learn to pump his own swing?
K has an opportunity to be part of a new children’s orchestra that is starting at Butler University, where she takes lessons. We had been talking a lot about both taking part in the Metropolitan Youth Orchestra in the fall. K has performance anxiety, but is curious about ensembles, so we had decided that we would try it this fall. The Metropolitan Youth Orchestra requires that a parent learn and perform alongside the child, which would have been perfect for K and I. However I just learned that the MYO lost a crucial grant at the beginning of the year, and is operating under very limited function right now. (It’s my guess that this new Children's Orchestra forming at Butler may be a kind of response to that? Who knows.) So the new Orchestra is forming now, and although it’s unexpected, K is going along on Saturday to check this out.
My own unexpected moment was catching the cold that has been going around, leaving me all tired with mild cold symptoms. I thought that if I were going to get it, well, I would have gotten it by now! But no, I had to wait until the nice weather! : )
Flexibility I guess is my lesson in all of these things. And a sense of simply expecting the unexpected after a while……