Look at Luke!

Here's the latest from Luke. These pictures was taken with the last day. Him just being cute and all that.

He seems to be getting more fun day by day! It's great hearing him vocalizing so much! The funny that we push them to talk and be vocal so much when they're babies, but when the get older we tell them to shut up.
Such a logical race, we humans.

I had a busy week of events going on at the college preparing me for the graduate student experience. I've met many other graduate students in the music department, and they're all really great people that I've been getting along with well. I haven't heard anyone play their instrument yet, but I'm guess these graduate students are all really hot stuff. I can wait to start hearing people play, and to play in ensembles with them.

I've also been working to prepare my stuff for the ensemble auditions which are during the first week of school. It's been a struggle because of the lack of playing I've done this month due to various things like the move, unpacking, and other settling-in sort of things. Lemme tell ya, for those of you who aren't brass players, missing more than a day of practice really puts you out of shape. So, I'm working on getting back into shape. Then, I've got to keep in shape.

It's cool watching Holly interact with Luke. He is like her whole life now, and it seems to make her quite happy. It is quite a lot of work she has to do, which is something that I think the male gender will never really understand. I admit, I don't really understand how much work it is, but I do observe the fact that her attention is always on Luke. She does mention every now and then about going back to work, or at least doing a little substitute teaching. Actually, she's been talking about start graduate studies of her own next year, since we're here. It'll be interesting trying to figure out what to do with Luke. But, in the meantime, for this year at least, she's a full-blown stay-at-home mom, and I'm very thankful she is that. So while she does that, I'll work towards getting closer to my life goals, in addition to providing for the family and proving to the world that I'm not a loser. I say that because the last couple years of really going nowhere in my career, thus not providing very much has really discouraged me. Time for that to end!

Take care and value music.