Cooking, by Weston Largey

So one day, I was making dinner in the kitchen and Weston was practicing his piano.  I could hear him in there just playing away on a little song I'd never heard and I thought "Wow, that's really good for only having piano lessons with Maama yesterday!" The song had chords, good counting, repetition... So when he finished and said "Huh. I just made that up." I was floored!  And then I said, "Hurry, play it again! Let's write it down so you can use it for the Reflections contest!"

The theme this year was "Magic in a Moment" so Weston named his song "Cooking" and explained it as the sounds of mixing, the spoon hitting the bowl, and then the timer going off at the end.  What you pull out of the oven at the end is magical!  We recorded it  and wrote down the notation and sent it in on the last day of the contest... Whew.

Meanwhile, Weston (all by himself) learns to play it Jon Schmidt style UPside Down with his head under the piano- I guess you can do that when you've written the song yourself and it's just in your brain...

And THEN, I get an email from the Reflections committee saying "your child is getting an award." YES! 

Here's Weston, with his trophy saying his entry "Cooking" is moving up to the next round of the Contest!

We were so proud of him....

AND, this week, we got a cryptic note in the mail. outside: "To the Parents of Weston Largey From Mr. Will Woodrow"  inside (in handwriting): "Weston Largey won music."

That was the note- no explaination.

Though, there was also an invite to the next assembly for Reflections, so I guess he's moving up to the next round. Is it district? Is it state? Who knows, but we are busting our buttons!

Weston Jon Schmidt is in the house! (in the words of Weston...:)