SHE Auction

For the past 6 years, Jared has played with Blues Jam (the "Darden band") for a benefit concert/auction that the Women's MBA students sponsor and give all proceeds to the women's shelter here in Charlottesville.  This year Caleb spontaneously joined him for a rehearsal when I was taking the other boys to b-day parties for friends or play-dates.  The drummers came home and told me that Caleb took a few turns on the drums and the band asked if he wanted to join them for the concert!  I was thrilled for him and last night I got to watch this oldest son of mine play three, THREE songs of the 8 total songs of the night, perfectly.  I mean, think of this....there he is counting off the songs and holding the rhythms of all the musicians and then bringing the songs to a close!  All those wonderful band members - good friends all, and some old enough to be his grandpa - were so thrilled and impressed with him.  We invited some friends in our neighborhood (the Gorman's) who are music aficionados and who have been taking Caleb to orchestra this entire year, to join us.  It was also Gavin's turn to accompany me for the evening of fancy clothes and a nice meal.... he was mostly looking forward to a Shirley Temple, but they had no cherry juice, just cranberry, so we compromised and he still thought it was the best drink ever!  So we all had a great time watching the "boys" perform and Jared even managed to get Gavin up there for a little tambourine work for Mustang Sally at the end of the night.  A few photos to remember the evening:

First song for Caleb: "Get out of my life woman"

A little in-between song planning/banter...

"Mustang Sally" with Gavin on tambourine 

Can a kid get cuter??

Jared and the two Darden student back-up singers

This was also Liam's first time doing "night" babysitting.  When we got home we found him playing some game on the iPad and Jonah sound asleep.  He then came down and told us to rush upstairs to look at Jonah and here is what we found......Priceless

Donning the owl sleep-mask ... upside down :)