Well, Saturday morning we had a very special experience with the Lehigh Marching Band. Turns out one of my students is the Drum Major (conductor) of the marching band. Whoa! When she found out how obsessed my kids are (well, let’s be real — how obsessed KYLE is) with the marching band, she was all over it. She invited us to come to the football game early on Saturday, and hang out in the field house with the marching band as they warmed up and lined up. Whoa! Of course, we took her up on it. I had told her that Kyle was especially obsessed with trumpets and trombones. When we arrived at the field house my student (the Drum Major) was waiting for us. She came right up and welcomed K & O. And then… suddenly, a trumpet player and a trombone player came strutting right up, with their instruments and everything. (my student had obviously lined this up for us in advance without us knowing it). Whoa! Kyle just stared at the trombone player with delirious wide eyes. He showed the boys the trombone, he played it for them, he let them touch it. The trumpet player even let Owen try on his marching band hat. Whoa! It was huge. Especially for Ky Ky. We watched and listened to the marching band tune up, warm up, line up, get psyched up, and start their tailgate marching. Then we followed them around the parking lots and watched/listened as they stopped along the way playing for drunken tailgaters. Whoa! It was fabulous. Ky Ky is now even more obsessed than ever.
