Mumford

Long week, short post.  Susan and I both successfully streaked on a nice, but chilly day here in the greater Boston area.  I took Noah for a run again this evening - he likes hitting bumps in the road in the jogging stroller - thinks its the funniest thing in the world!  So, being the devoted father, I aim for every pothole I see!  Surely not a good plan for the longevity of our ridiculously overpriced jogging stroller, "The Bob," for those of you that may be familiar, but what are you going to do...the boy demands it, and I'm a sucker for his laugh!

The other highlight of the day - outside of my leaving work a bit early to avoid strangling someone quite senior to me and, thus, probably making a bad career move - was listening to Mumford and Sons in the car with Noah.  I'm certainly not original, but Mumford and Sons is the best band around as far as I'm concerned.  Saw (heard) them on Saturday Night Live maybe 9 months ago (again, not claiming to be original!) and they really struck me as being great.  I mean, if a band sounds good on SNL, you know they have to be good.  And the more I listen, the more I like them.  Anyways, as the saying goes, like father like son...Noah loves them too.  He knows "the words" to many of the songs, and it is the cutest thing in the world when he sings along.  This evening, we went to pick Susan up from the train and he was rocking out to, "I Will Wait,"...okay, "we" were rocking out, and it was awesome!  That was his favorite song for a while, but he has recently been going through a phase where he doesn't want to listen to it...tonight he actually asked for the song and i was psyched.  I realize it's on the radio all the time and I own the CD and have it on my iPod, etc, etc., but Noah has truly insisted on not hearing it for about a month now, and it still is my favorite song.  So, it was great as we both belted it out in the car together this evening.  I have a video of him from a little while back on my phone of him singing along that I'll post here, but not tonight.  It's been a long week - my legs are a touch sore as they are certainly not used to running 3 days in a row - and we're moving next weekend!  So, I'm going to clip it a bit short this evening as I need my rest...."you forgave and I won't forget!"