Tad does Region

Last Saturday, Tad Day performed at the Region Band Clinic as probably the youngest band member of the Junior Band, therefore as the yougnest band member of the entire 400 member clinic. His feet didn’t touch the floor as he sat in rehearsal, so he had to put them on his case, when he wasn’t swinging them to keep time. He did great! Gramma and Grammpa got to host him and a few of his buddies at the TR Hotel and Pancake House, thanks to them as well. Tad had this to say after the concert, where he played princile 2nd trumpet…
“Daddy, I sight read 1st trumpet on the concert!”
“What? How did that happen?”
“They passed out the wrong folders!”
“Did you tell the director?”
“No, I WANTED to play 1st” (Tad had told me all weekend that NEXT year , he would be first, not 2nd trumpet) “It was EASY”

Tad is now an official trumpet player with a developing ego and a “I want to be first mentality” And he ISN’T really a trumpet player because he summed up his first Honor Band experience by declaring that he would like to go back again becasue he had made a new friend. Cool.

By the way, the photo is Tad stealing 2nd. We have tried, but he continues to steal. I feel so unprepared to be a parent sometimes