Best Shot(s) Monday--The Easter Edition

Every Easter since Cadence was born (actually, since Ted and I have been together), we go to Ted's parents' house for Easter dinner. Cadence seems to have developed a little tradition of her own.

Here she is playing Grandma & Grandpa's piano on her very first Easter. Does she not look like a natural?

Here she is at last year's Easter dinner tickling the ivories again. A little more hair this year--enough to warrant a barrette (barely).

And here she is at this year's Easter dinner, getting ready to carry on her yearly Easter performance. This year, she has enough hair for PIGTAILS, not juste a barrette.

She's also able to climb onto the piano bench all by herself now. Not to mention, she looks HUGE compared to the previous two years.

Just take a look at those dangling legs! She looks like she's big enough for piano lessons (not gonna happen). Well, if she keeps practicing her little Schoenhut, maybe she'll have a big piano someday. But probably not one as big as the one at Grandma & Grandpas. Unless she plans on sleeping underneath it every night. Excuse the fragments please.

Well, being big enough to get on the piano bench by herself also means she doesn't have to stay on there helpless while her mama takes endless photos of her. Oh well.

Go see other folks' Best Shot Monday here.

I'm Just a Fan

And apparently, just one of 2,000 fans willing to pay $100-200 to see Jeff Tweedy. I guess the show was open to the general public, so it wasn't the intimate show I was expecting. It was fun, though, with a raucous crowd. Jeff kept it low-key and casual, and his entire set was made up of songs requested by the first 30 people in line at the door. Damn. I should have shown up earlier. Then he would've played Via Chicago.

The setlist was quite varied, actually, from Uncle Tupelo (including one of my faves--New Madrid) to the Mermaid Ave Project to Wilco to some favorite covers (including Love and Mercy by Brian Wilson, another one of my faves) to songs I've never heard of from his Golden Smog and Loose Fur projects. Oh, he even did a song from the Chelsea Walls soundtrack. He only played one song off each of the first 3 Wilco albums (Passenger Side from A.M., The Lonely 1 from Being There, and A Shot in the Arm from Summerteeth). Yankee Hotel Foxtrot dominated the setlist, and Jeff played a handful of songs off the upcoming Sky Blue Sky album. My favorite that he played from the new one is called What Light, and you can download a copy from their website here. It's a lovely, lovely song, and I thought quite appropriate for a fundraiser for a school.

Jeff spent almost as much time talking as he did playing music, something he'd never do with a full band, so it was cool hearing all his funny stories. My friend Alana and I had a great time together, and we are so totally thankful to our friend Alex who made it all possible!

This Blogging Thing is Starting to Pay Off.

What you are looking at, dear readers, is two tickets to An Evening With Jeff Tweedy (of Wilco). Two $150.00 tickets. To an EXCLUSIVE, INTIMATE performance by Jeff Tweedy for 200 or so lucky patrons. And how did I score me these tickets? Because my lovely friend Alex read my Three Questions blog post (in response to Leah of Lakeline's questions) and saw Wilco at the top of my cool band list. She happened to receive two tickets as a gift, but isn't a Wilco fan, so guess who's the luckiest girl on the upper North Side? Me! That's who! And my friend Alana, who also happens to be friends with Alex. See, folks, it sometimes pays to have friends who don't share your musical interests.

Tell me the truth...

Does this gray make me look blue?

Be honest now.

Yeah. We went for gray. It looks blue. Honestly, though, I'm a blue kind of girl so I love it. Ted's grudgingly accepting it, I think.

so this is how ted gets cadence to nap

i come home from work just an hour later than usual, and this is the state i find my daughter in...