Kaeleigh and Violet.

Now that Kaeleigh is in 4th grade she is old enough to join the school orchestra program.

I cannot begin to tell you how excited she is.

We headed over to Milanos music store to pick out her violin.

This place totally brings back memories of elementary and junior high for me, back when I played the flute.

Here's the happy girl with her violin that she named Violet.

I asked her why she named it that and she said that in one of The Boxcar Children books that she read there was a girl named Violet that played violin.  

Makes perfect sense.

In other Kaeleigh news, she decided to run for a student council representative position in her class.  She had to give a 2-5 minute speech on why she would be the best person to represent her class at the student council meetings.  There were two representative positions open and one alternate.  Only four kids in the class wanted the jobs and Kaeleigh ended up tied for votes with another girl for the alternate position.  Kaeleigh and this other girl had to give their speeches again and Kaeleigh won.  So now if either of the reps are absent then she gets to fill in at the meetings.  She's so excited.  Afterward she tells me that she didn't even vote for herself!  Sheesh!  She probably could have made rep if she had but oh well.  She's already getting practice on public speaking for the next election in which she wants to run for Treasurer.  I'll be sure to remind her to vote for herself.  :)