50 hours of piano playing

Kylee and Brayden's piano recital was on May 19 at RBC Music, a music store with a room for recitals.  

Brayden and Kylee had seen the trophies won last year by 2 students who had completed 80 hours of practicing for the whole school year.  Brayden decided he wanted to get a trophy next time.  His motivation was renewed when he saw that Taylor was close to him and his competitive spirit kicked in.  One day he practiced for two and a half hours broken up throughout the day because he wanted to do a whole week's worth of practice in a single day.  This was  a huge feat considering the struggle it normally is to squeeze 30 minutes of practice out of him.  Kylee was motivated by trying to catch up and beat Brayden.  With their limited repertoire of fairly short songs, this unusual emphasis on piano practice resulted in some practices where they played songs in all different octaves or the same song over and over again until prompted by Mom or Dad to move on to another song due to impending madness.  In the end they both won a trophy for completing 50 hours, a lower target from the previous year because only half the year was recorded when their teacher took a few months off when she had her baby.  We were impressed.