For those about to rock, we salute you

Someday I envision having the following conversation with Graham.

G: Daddy, I want to be just like you
J: Overweight and underemployed?
G: No
J: Quick to anger and slow to forgive?
G: No
J: Afraid of being wrongly convicted of a crime and sent to a severe penal colony where the other inmates mercilessly harass you?
G: No
J: Well, I'm stumped
G: I want to play music

We'll see if that talk actually materializes. In the meantime, Graham has expressed some interest in visiting music stores. So we've been hitting up local shops and I've been letting him take a shot with various instruments. No pressure, just throwing the music poop at the wall to see what sticks.

So far, this has been the big winner. Look out John Bonham.

Hats

Mr. Graham is all about dress up these days. Loyal readers will of course know that he loves him some Batman costume, but he is branching out every day. Recently he has been insanely into hats, especially a $20 straw hat he conned me into buying him at Gap kids (I'm a sucker).

Anywho, he wears it everywhere now and is quite the dashing young man, tallying bananas left and right.

Welsh. Graham Welsh.

Auditioning for What Not to Wear: Children's Edition

"Now listen up Wally, we got a major scoop- Streetcar on fire downtown"

"Do I mumble? I oughta sock you back to nineteen tickety two!"

I can haz hatz too? 

Unrelated but disgusting. The kid likes pasta.

Really?

Usually I am right on in terms of what I think my children will enjoy, probably because I still enjoy most of the same things.

Bounce houses? Score. Pull my finger? Check. Carwashes? Um...no.

Where we've been

Long time no post, but here's what the Welsh boys have been doing....

Jakey has been befriending rodent hitchhikers. He's just too trusting... 

Washing off the scabies from the sketchy mouse drifter.

Being sick. In this picture Jakey is like a 102 degree  Mt. Saint Helens, erupting infrequently but with devastating effect on the overweight local townsfolk.

Graham joined the Police Academy and aced the lesson on parallel parking.

Jakey took on a new gig endorsing the power of the bean. However....

...it didn't work out and he went back to driving a yellow cab.

He told me later that while Batman may be a superhero, he is far from a super tipper.

Figaro!

On the serious side - here's why my children are better people than I am. One day last week we went to a concert by the local children's music school. When we arrived it was the music therapy kids portion of the show. The below video was taken while a 10 year old mentally handicapped girl and her teacher played and sang "Party in the USA" by Miley Cyrus.

In my meaner spirited younger days, you couldn't have served up a bigger comedy meatball than that scenario. As a 35 year old dad, it just made me kind of sad for other parents and grateful for the health of my own kids. To a 1 year old Jakey? It was just a straight up jam.