Maxime dear: practicing piano
Maxime has been playing piano, with lessons a bit intermittently during the school year, for a year or so.
He seems to go into his own little world when he plays, and while in the beginning he was really hard on himself when things didn't come out just right, he has relaxed into it.
It is heavenly to hear his cheery notes wafting down through the staircase well into every corner of the house.