Elijah first violin lesson

I received a miniature violin for my birthday that is a bit too small for me but just the right size for my little nephew Elijah! So we decided that it is never too early to start with music and commenced with his first violin lesson...

Here he was learning how to hold the violin without any hands...this is when baby fat comes in real handy!

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Here he is memorizing the names of the strings..."let's see, was it M-I-L-K?" (that's his favorite word, as you can tell from the cute rolls in the previous picture!)

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It was about now that he was starting to question us and our brilliant plan of starting a 2 month old baby on the violin.

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And that was the end of the lesson...and he let us know exactly what he thought of it too! I guess I need to rethink my teaching methods.