This was an awesome day for Jace. He had his first rehearsal with the full orchestra today. He walked into the band room and sat down in a row of chairs along the wall with the other principals. He was called to the front and introduced by the maestro, who had to ask him how to pronounce his last name correctly. "This is Jace Salcido and he is our Oliver this year. Don't let his size fool you". They gave him a microphone so that the orchestra could hear his interpretation of the music and follow his lead (instead of the other way around). The musicians smiled at him and then at the maestro's cue, they began to play a beautiful introduction to the song he has been practicing for weeks with just a piano. The members of the orchestra focused their eyes on their music and the maestro, but when Jace began singing, a few of the members just looked up and had big smiles on their faces. It was so thrilling to hear Jace really feel the music he was singing because of the background instruments that were playing. The orchestra adds so much more feeling to the pieces that are sung. After he finished his song, he came over and whispered to me, "That was SO fun!!"
We had a lot of little errands to run today and by the end of the day we had finished with most of them. I helped a woman in this ward garden for a couple of hours this morning and then came home to get kids up and out the door to practice. We bought a new allergy medicine for Jace because he has been so stuffy here and blowing his nose constantly. He has even resorted to stuffing toilet paper up his nose when it's really drippy and yesterday when we were on our walk, I had to teach him what my next door neighbor used to do when he was outside without a kleenex. He would put one finger on one side of his nose, bend his head over toward the ground and then blow air out through the open nostril, sending a stream of snot to the ground. Boys are so gross! Jace didn't quite get the hang of how to do it properly so we'll be washing his Sunday shirt soon:) We're going to try Zyrtec for kids and that may eliminate the need to perfect this skill. Sierra and Jace both have a long day ahead of them tomorrow, starting at 9:00 in the morning and going til 9:30 that night. Jace has a dress rehearsal on Wednesday that will take up most of his day.
The kids went on a bike ride today up to a house that we have been looking at. It is two blocks from the Logan temple, has a beautiful grand piano, a jacuzzi and two stairways leading downstairs, but other than that, it is pretty old. We were mostly just looking for fun:) although I really do love this beautiful place and have told Dave I wouldn't mind moving.
I found a great bike at D.I. today so that I can join the kids on their rides. Dave took the other bike I was using back to Utah County because I couldn't get the tires inflated and got really sore the first time I went riding but I decided I needed to persevere a little longer. This would be a great family activity when we get back to Elk Ridge.
Tonight we went to the mall to exchange some shoes that Sierra bought today. She ended up with two completely different shoes for some reason. As we were walking in, Maci was trying to hold Sierra's hand and Sierra kept batting it away. Maci put her hand down, looked straight ahead and said, "Stop it Sierra, you're embarrassing me." We got a good laugh out of that.
It is becoming warm during the days here in Logan. Our apartment managers installed a window a/c unit today and boy I hope it works. It seems so tiny. Apparently the pioneers didn't care if they were sweaty because many of the homes here are built without air conditioning.
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