As often happens in our household, Arianna has adopted an activity from the boys. Adam has ben practicing drums at home, including his practice pad and a couple of other improvised elements that he uses until his drumset arrives. Arianna wanted to make her own drum set, so she found several boxes, and we showed her how to arranged them from small to large. You can make out the practice pad/lesson book that serves as her snare drum.
   She is using sticks and a lesson book that was given to Aaron a few years ago as a Christmas present. Since she knows how to read music(from school, yeah Ms Pat!), playing from this lesson book is a piece of cake. I only had to show her how to reading the ‘sticking’, which describes which beat to play on which stick(right or left). She went through several lesson the first night. The sticks and lesson book seem to be a perfect fit for her.