Songs & Conversations

Friday night we ended up surprising the boys & taking them to see who else but - Jim Cosgrove. He was singing in Lee's Summit & their aunt, uncle & cousins invited us to join them at the show. Patrick's parents went as well. We went decked out in our typical attire, with guitars, and this time we even brought our guitar stands as they are new and the boys needed to show them to Jim. Jim talked to them before the show and did notice the stands and commented about them. He also introduced them during the show as his "mini-me's". It was neat for the boys. After the show, Mrs. Cosgrove also commented about the guitar stands. We had a great time. The whole drive there, Leyton & Nathaniel were pretending to be Jim & their blanky's were Jim's kids (Leyton's was Jim's younger daughter, Nathaniel's was Jim's older daughter). Every minute or second they would be saying something about, "Jim has to go to work tonight," or "Jim likes to sing Red Wagon," etc. Then, somehow between conversations, they each dozed off for a few minutes of the drive. When we arrived, we woke them & figured they would be back to being themselves & forget they had been pretending. Not a chance...Leyton woke up and said, "Dad, Jim's awake!" Too funny.

The other conversations of note are with Jacob. He is really talking and has things in good context. You can actually have a decent conversation with him. "What you doin'?" ... "Nothing, what are you doing?" "Playing." ... "Are you having fun?" "yeah." "Do you want to change your diaper?" "Yeah, powder, pwease." He's really funny. Also at night when you lay by him, if you try to get up, he'll usually tell you, "Lay down." Today in the car, the boys wanted to hear "Back where I come from" (Kenny Chesney) over and over (they even ask if I push the repeat button on the CD player to make sure it stays on). In the short delay between the end and when it restarts, he was saying, "come from, Mom, come from." It really made me think for a second to let that sink in. Of course he knew what he wanted, I just didn't realize he was listening to the lyrics! Ha.

That's about it for today. We're all worn out & ready for a good night's sleep.