Today Karina had a big day! She went to her first concert! The Chicago Brass Quintet was playing in Brookfield...a relatively rare thing for The Quintet to be playing just a few minutes away...so everyone wanted to hear Karina's Grandpa play. For many of the Heinrichs this would be the first time they'd ever gotten to see Grandpa Jim perform...outside of their own living room that is!
The turn out of Milwaukee residents was tremendous, as well as the turn out of Karina's family and friends. Present were Karina and her Mommy and Daddy, Gammy Joy, Grandma Mary and her friend, Great-Aunt Beth, Great-Grandma June, Aunt Lee and Cousin Elsa and the wife of the french hornist, Karen Flint and her daughter Zoe, who was born one week before Karina.
We tried to get the babies to be quiet but learned exactly how hard of a job that is when Zoe's mommy took her out of the concert hall before the music began, Karina's mommy brought her out within the first few minutes due to her "singing" along with the music and although Elsa remained in the concert hall the longest...perhaps a minute or two longer than Karina...she made the biggest impact of all three of the babies when she let out a piercing wail after a particularly loud and startling opening to The Quintet's second piece. According to Aunt Lee the crowd was particularly forgiving and just laughed when they heard Elsa's contribution.
However, even though the girls and their Mommies (and Gammy Joy) spent nearly the entire concert out in the lobby (we were able to let Aunt Lee go back in since she'd never heard The Quintet before), the music was piped out into the lobby so we got to hear them play and a great time was had by all three girls...although Elsa needed nap by the time the intermission was over. Unfortunately, I didn't bring the camera along so I don't have any pictures of the event...which is a shame because the girls all had such cute outfits on for the occasion!
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