Concert

I do not recommend taking two-year olds to concerts.  However, Jonathan was slated to play with a band of fellow covenant students, and I didn’t want to miss it.  So I bundled Charlie up and we went to do our best at listening.  (It started at 7:15pm, which is usually Charlie’s bed time, so I knew we wouldn’t be staying for the whole thing.)

Luckily the venue was at a coffee shop, so it was pretty laid back.  That was a good thing too, because every time a song ended, Charlie announced, repeatedly,  in a loud voice, “All done!  Song all done!” 

And then there was the moment I looked down and realized Charlie had taken off all his shoes and socks (thankfully not his shirt).  Another time I glanced over and realized he had knocked my strawberry smoothie off the table in front of me and spilled it down the side of the leather sofa we were sitting in.  We also had to leave the room where the band was playing several times, because the other rooms of the coffee shop had TVs with basketball playing, and Charlie needed to keep up on the score. 

We left for home before the first set was even finished.  And Charlie, misunderstanding my instructions to wave goodbye to Dada, escaped me and climbed up onto the stage to give Dada a hug goodbye!  Oops!! 

Still, all in all I’d say it was a pretty successful evening—I did get to hear Jonathan play and I enjoyed the music I heard and could pay attention to!

Charlie had some decided opinions about some of the songs: 

Jonathan played beautifully:

And Charlie and I clapped enthusiastically for every single song!