Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Talents


I've always wondered how parents could recognize talents or personality traits in their kids. It seems so young to determine a child as a dancer or a musician. Since Ethan has come into our lives I understand what other parents are talking about. Ethan has two strong interests right now. The first one is throwing balls. He loves it, and is really good at it. Saturday night Ethan even watched a baseball game with great grandma Janie for 30 minutes or more without becoming bored at all. Today Ethan and I walked to the park. He spent more time watching the tennis players play, than going down the slide or swinging.

As you will see in this video, Ethan's second talent or interest is music. In church his favorite thing is to open the hymn book and beat his hands. During one of the choir numbers of general conference this weekend, Ethan took a children's book and opened it like choir music and conducted the choir! This video shows his love at the piano. He plays it so gently and seems to be so interested.

3 comments:

Julie said...

He has such great hand position! =) Most little kids play with one finger, not their whole hands on the keyboard. Ryan is our biggest music lover, I think.

kristenhcubed said...

It's the page turning that always gets me. I love it when they play, turn the page, and play some more. Kids are so observant!

christopher g said...

Pretty soon they'll call him to play the piano in Elder's Quorum (he's almost good enough)