Tiny Tots Concert

Today our friend from playgroup went downtown together for a Tiny Tots concert. The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra puts on special performances at Heinz Hall specifically for children every couple of months, and this was our second time to attend. When we went back in November, we all had a blast, so Mommy and Kaiser were looking forward to another great concert!

Unfortunately, Kaiser's congestion is kind of creeping back (Sickness, you are not welcome here!), and it took him a while to fall asleep during his morning nap. He had only just stopped babbling and started resting when it was already time for me to get him up so we could leave. :( The boy was in good spirits, though, when I told him where we were going!

Getting his listening ears ready.

"Yay for the Symphony!"

"Enough pics, Mommy. Let's go already!"

We met everyone over at Amy, Koen, and Tavin's house so that we could catch the bus from their corner to take us downtown. This was my second experience using public transportation with Kaiser; fortunately, both times our "adventure" has been fun and gone smoothly!

"We are moving, so why am I not in my carseat?"

Koen and Amy (sporting Tavin in the Bjorn).

Erin, Ellie, and Ellie's daddy.

Aiden cheesin' it up. (His mommy, Amie, was behind the camera.)

Mommy and her "still in la-la land" boy.

Our bus was running a bit late, so we arrived right as the concert was beginning. We met up with some other friends of ours, Jory and Nell (Nell is exactly one month younger than Kaiser, and her daddy is in the ortho program, too), who I invited at the last minute when I found out we had extra tickets. The gang got settled in our seats during the first song of "1...2...3...Go!" This month's performance was all about beat, and the kiddos had fun listening to different beat combinations and "being conductors". Kaiser was very attentive, clapping his hands and bobbing his head . . . except, of course, for when he was watching Nell. :)

"How come Nell gets to play on the stairs and I'm stuck here?"

"She'd better be careful..."

Watching the musicians take their bows.

After the concert, we caught the bus back to the Melders'. By then, it was way past Kaiser's lunch time, so I had a hungry little dude on my hands. We stuck around there to feed our faces, and before we left to head home so Kaiser could nap, I just had to get a shot of this precious guy:

Sweet Baby Tavin. (I can't believe this is my first pic of him!)

We've got a busy day ahead of us tomorrow: makeup music class, then lunch with a friend from church, then Kaiser's second haircut (!), and then small group in the evening. I'm hoping his runny nose/congestion is just lingering, and not the start of something new. We've got way too much going on to let sickness bring us down again!