Musical Tauntaun

Music practice continues, and things are getting more intense.  One word to describe a silent place, marking a quarter note (other than saying "quarter rest"), is something that sounds like "taun."

So I have absolutely no idea how to spell that.  I've been looking and can't find the word on the internet, although my searching hasn't been longer than five minutes.  Still, we have the word "taun" in our house.  Two quarter rests in a row, and you've got a taun-taun.

Yes, just like the ones from "The Empire Strikes Back."  
Except a little less "musical."

Madison has homework and homework for music class, so her education continues at home.  This has been great to see her learning and practicing, and getting better and better.  Speaking of which, the traffic in the mornings is getting better.  Daddy is getting her there a little earlier, and the line of cars - formerly over a mile long - is getting a bit shorter in length.  Part of that is because of a new strategy employed by the staff at the school, which seems to be working better for all of us.
A few Mondays from now, it is Labor Day.  We intend to wear white after Labor Day as a form of protest, but on the day itself, we've decided to do something special:  we'll go to the museum.  Daddy has never been to Fernbank, but we're all in the mood to see a ginormous dinosaur skeleton.  It's been ages since Daddy has seen one, but he and Mommy have been to the museums in New York and Washington DC.  Not the one in Atlanta though.  All that changes on Labor Day, where we'll hopefully have some fun with Madison exploring and learning more about all sorts of things, including tauntauns!