Funking up at the Sharon Jones Concert

Last night we went over to the Zoo, one of our fave Seattle destinations, for an early evening concert by Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, a modern R&B group that does soul like they were playing for the Stax label back in the late '60s. (Check out their MySpace page for some tuneage samples.) We met up with the Carlson clan (Jeff and Kim and their daughter Ellie), and had a pretty darn good time hanging out and digging the music. Sofian also did a pretty good job at keeping himself contained to our blanket on the grass. We did get up with him a couple of times to go for walks, but when the music was playing we did enough entertaining to prevent him from invading the neighboring blankets.

Here are a couple of great shots captured by Jeff and his spiffy Digital SLR:

 

At ZooTunes...

...with Jeff & Kim & Ellie, attending the Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings
concert.

Today's train track (25 July)

Today's train track (24 July)

Nature boy

At the park today, Sof seemed more interested in hanging out in the
tall grasses than playing in the sandpit or on the play structures.

Today's train track (24 July)

Set this up while the boy was napping. Got the new suspension bridge
parts this morning. Seems I'm becoming a train addict.

Obama Boyz

New Skill: Making faces

Yesterday, the boy decided that he really liked to make a new face, where he smiled as he scrunched up the rest of his visage. We tried to capture it as best we could, but hopefully he'll keep doing it and we can get it on video.

Practicing the delicate art of drinking from a cup

The train track from 22 July

Big boy in jeans

Train track - 23 July

I'm pretty proud of this design. Going forward, I'm hoping to document
the various track designs Parie and I come up with each morning. (Yes,
the train is technically the boy's toy, but we have a lot of fun with
it, too.)

Walking at The Junction

Out to Breakfast

Usually, Sunday means it's Waffunday at the LD, but today we decided to breakfast out at Easy Street Records.

It'a good to be home

Visiting Babe with Harry

The World's Most Dangerous Polka Band...

...at Nye's Polynaise Room on Mpls. Dad's Night Out (me, DGA and Ward)

Thinking about my next move...

Menacing clouds in Minnesota

OK, this isn't about the boy, but thought I'd share these gathering
thunderstorm clouds from Minneapolis. I'm here this weekend to visit
my Grandfather as well as see some college pals from far-flung places.

Summer Hat Sofian

Swinging with Sammy

Met up with Sammy and his Dad, Charlie, on a DDC day.