Tuba Diva

The first Little Jogger has taken up the tuba. They had a thing this spring where the fifth graders came in and they tried them on all the instruments, and the band teacher decided tuba was the one for her. She started lessons this week, and brought home her instrument for the first time last night. To her credit, she's really trying. Of course, after four lessons (of 45 minutes each, with three aspiring tubists at once), she sounds a lot like a dying hippo. Some day, when she's playing Carnegie Hall, we'll look back on these days and laugh.