Tuesdays are usually our busiest day homeschooling, because instead of staying home we take Bryant up to his school and our friend Russ up to the church for his school. Since it's all the way in Brentwood and we have to pick them back up at 2, we just stay at the church and do school in one of the upstairs classrooms.

Bailey got sick again during the night last night, so I really didn't want to take her anywhere. Plus, with all the sickness going on out there, I kind of didn't want to expose Bryant to a bunch of other 2-yr-olds either. After all, one of them might throw up or something.

On days when we are all here together, we wait to do a lot of stuff until Bryant goes down for a nap. But after Bradley finished his math, he went to practice piano. I've learned that he has a really great ear, and he's started picking songs out on the piano from memory. His newest one is "The First Noel."

Today, Bailey started singing it with him in the form of "la, la, las" while he played. Where this ended up completely blew my mind.

First, Brad came up with a tag ending where he would hold out the last note of "Noel" and Bailey would keep singing. It actually sounded really good. He was working hard at different endings to see what would sound the best.

Somewhere along the way they decided they needed a microphone. So with the help of some black construction paper, tape and string, they ended up with this...
Bradley even took the time to make the bottom of the mic have an on/off switch, complete with a red light power indicator. I didn't even know that he had looked at the bottom of a mic, but apparently he has. I thought it was interesting that they decided to put a power cord on the mic, since all the ones we use at church are cordless. I think it just made the whole thing look cooler to them.

After they had a mic, of course they needed an amp to make sure everyone could hear. One Amazon box and black marker later, and Voila, you have a pretty cool sound system! They even put a hook on the side to hold the mic on when not in use.

But what totally blew my mind was when Bradley said he needed a mic for the piano. As he said, we need the ones that hang from the ceiling so the instruments can be heard. This one came in orange...
And here is our worship team, completely decked out with the latest in sound equipment and ready to go.

I just stood back in amazement at how much they have picked up from being in church, being in choir and having to sit through early morning worship team rehearsals. I couldn't be more proud of them right now. I feel like it's just a glimpse of one of the ways God may use them in the future.

Oh, and the cage? That's to keep Bryant out. He was determined to get a piece of this action before it was all over!