Kids Music Lessons

It's been our desire for long to put the kids in a MUSIC class .. and we tried towards the latter end of last year, when we had enrolled Tryphena at a Music Academy here for vocal training. But by March this year, we had to discontinue as the Music College was going through some internal conflicts.





Now, we have resumed by having one tutor, Alovi (from Nagaland) .. who is studying her final year in Music come home and teach the kids every week.
She devotes one hour totally to them and the kids are enjoying it - though early stages, we are glad that they are beginning to enjoy it.

Tryphena is learning the keyboard and Theo is learning Guitar.

Tryphena turns 10

Tryphena had been waiting for a while to get into double figures .. and now here she is - officially 10 yrs. old on the 24th July '11 - and she is quite excited about that :-)

To make this a memorable occasion for her, we decided to put together a Collage of her JOURNEY IN LIFE the last 10 yrs. It was fun and she really enjoyed watching it .. and so did the guests who came to celebrate with her on Saturday (23rd) evening.

Here you can see the first 3 slides from that show.

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Receiving a 'kiss' from daddy!






That's the order of the day ... food at the end. Some didn't turn up - so there was plenty for those who had come :-)




And finally, it's time to open up the presents - she was one happy girl at the end.

July 2011

These photos have been long coming :-)
These were pictures taken while Carmen and the kids were in Chennai during the summer break.
Tryphena, with her cousin Jeanette.









The kids enjoyed an outing to their favourite eatery place in Chennai.









Theo with his roller-skates.











Theo and his best friend 'Ken' - having fun together.















The latest addition to our family came in the guise of Tryphena's 10th birthday gift - a Dachshund pup.
Ever since we had given 'Sparkles' away, Tryphena had been missing her and she really wanted another dog in the house - so, we decided to get a dog which will be easy for all of us to handle - the result: PIXIE, the Dachshund pup, who was only 32 days old, when we got her.