My "Little" Drummer Boy

Not the best picture but you can see how handsome that smiling drummer is!! This was his first halftime show and he did great! He led his row AND even participated in the extra drumline portion! Seeing him all dressed up and so grown up, I had tears in my eyes. Let me tell ya, this was one proud mama!!
Here is the rest of the story... All year, Aaron begged me to let him quit band. I kept telling him that he was too good to quit and that he should give high school band a try for at least a year. THEN Uncle Bruce let Cody quit trombone - you can imagine how bad the pressure from Aaron got after that!! BUT he went to summer tryouts AND liked them a lot... talked non-stop about practice and couldn't wait to see what type of instrument he would get assigned. He was sure it would be the cymbals or something easy, not a drum because "no freshmen ever get a drum, mom" But guess what? He was also the first freshman in five years to get a snare drum and talk about proud!! He reeaallllyy was!! And he will be the first to tell you how much he loves band and he even admits that "good ole mom" was RIGHT in making him stay in!!