Our jouney began when I handed our daugther, Ruby, a ukulele at the age of 9 weeks. By the time she was 9 weeks old, she probably had watched 100 hours of me fiddling away on the thing. One sunny afternoon on the back deck, after playing for her for a while, I decided to turn the ukulele around and set it on her car seat, where I had her hanging out while Mom napped. She reached right out for the strings, something that is supposed to be unusual at that age. Of course, I had to get the camera and take these pictures.

Since then, she has learned a great deal about hand-eye co-ordination, gentleness, dexterity, and sharing - all because she enjoys watching one be played and enjoys playing with one herself!

I have this really cool video of Ruby playing with a uke at the age of 11 weeks. Don't worry, I'm not a mad shutter bug, I don't have any more footage of her until she's 6 months old.

Sadly, UkeSchool is very young, and Baby Uke School is down the list of things to make. You can track the construction process in our construction blog.

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