What a clever girl.    That is so cute.

This semester my dd is taking dance - another Waldorf no no!  But I am a dancer and feel like I am a better judge of good classes and age appropriate movement than our friend Rudolf (may he rest in peace  ).  This Waldorf stuff is great AND needs to be taken with a great big grain of salt and an infusion of individual interests/needs.  I look forward to reading about your kids musical adventures...and naked wet water plunging.    Personally, I find both to be quite fun.

I'd love to hear more about Kai's piano lessons. I go back and forth on that with Lilly. She is still playing it by ear (and the recorder) but hasn't really expressed any interests in lessons. I started piano lessons when I was 6. I'm learning the guitar right now, and Lilly wants to learn the guitar. I'll see how that goes.

with piano we decided to not do lessons yet but we bought him a beginners piano book and are showing him a few things ourselves, and seeing where it goes form there. he is also playing a lot by ear but as someone who who has a good ear i know that it got harder and harder for me to learn to read music as i got older because i relied on my ear so much. so we are starting with some basic music notation. maybe you are doing that anyway with recorder? i think it's always good to follow their interests too, if we push them into an instrument they don't enjoy so much it will build up a resistance to learning/playing music; i had an awful piano teacher and didn't last long at all. guitar is a great instrument too; i started when i was 7 and it stayed with me for life, but i do wish i had better piano skills. i've been reading a lot on music and the brain, and it's fascinating and i think waldorf really falls short on this one.