Maia (5 years old) and Camelia

Dear Hellene, how happy and proud will Maia be to hear what you've written about her interpretation!
Thank you million times!

Hellene, what you have achieved is monumental!
I keep posting everything Maia learns in 7 days mostly because even for me it is hard to believe that learning the piano can be so fun and fast.

I agree, we work hard, but even so, without this program, Maia wouldn't have studied so much, wouldn't have evolved so beautifully.

She still has rhythm problems, but I have to keep in mind the fact that 2-3 months ago she wasn't even able to say "ta-ti-ti-ti-ti-ta" after me.

Seeing how both of us start "reading" the keys and the scores is one of the most uplifting experience I go through, hand in hand with my child - nothing in the world can surpass this!

Thank you once again, dear Hellene! We love you so, so much!

Oh, the music appreciation section is another huge dream of mine - I want my child to love the composers, to understand what hard, tremendous work stands behind the music she listens to. So, what I do is really not so much - it comes from my heart and my desire to inspire and help other parents, if possible.

Thank you so much, you are so kind!

1. “Largo”
Is it just my impression or last night’s interpretation is better than the one I posted on Friday?



I admire the way she almost caresses the keys and the way she pays attention to the “softness” of the piece.
This is one of the most precious video for us, since right after making it, the Tooth Fairy visited Maia for the first time in her life!
"Largo" is so dear to her, that she knows the score by heart and asked me to get to the piano and learn how to play it, too. She took so much care, corrected me with remarks such as: “Mummy, you forgot to play the ti with sol”!
I was a good student, made my homework and here is my interpretation:



We love this song so much that we find it so difficult to get to another one!

2. Winter butterfly ball
I would also like to share with you our sheer happiness at receiving the diploma and butterflies. Coincidence or not, Maia’s little things are, most of them, decorated with butterflies, which she adores.
When she turned 5, she had a butterfly theme party and the wooden letters that stand on the wall above the piano are decorated with butterflies, as well:



On the same occasion, she got from mummy her own “memory book”, decorated with…butterflies. Though I have never painted or scrap-booked in my life before, Maia is very proud of this book:



Here are the “piano page” (painted by mummy and decorated with the butterflies Maia received) and the envelope (where we keep the diploma from Hellene until we find the proper frame for it).



The motto I used for the art page is:
I dream of making music and when I make music, I’m dreaming.

Thank again for the wonderful gift, Hellene!