Jake sings Elvis

This video is a little dark, but that's because we'd lost power and were entertaining ourselves with my new ukulele that Ali got me for Father's Day. Earlier in the day, out of nowhere, Jake starting singing this song that we'd never heard before. He said he learned it from Poppy. He saw me practicing the uke and wanted to try it out with his song. If he ever becomes a famous musician, we'll always have his first song on video:



And here's the King:

Number One Fan

Sadie doesn't care if this tiny guitar is out of tune. She's a good listener.

Field Trip

Ali and I, and our good friend Heidi (minus Jamie), went out tonight to see the Pipettes at the Black Cat. It was like turning the clock back about four years to when we lived right down the street from the Black Cat and used to see lots of shows there. Except this time we had a babysitter - and not just any babysitter, but a real non-grandparent, non-friend, teenage girl babysitter who lives in the neighborhood. She's an older sister of one of the kids Jake plays with and she did great. We told her this was our first real babysitter and we weren't sure what we needed to tell her. She kind of shrugged her shoulders and said the cell phone number we left her was fine. Jake was already asleep when the babysitter came over, and I know he'll be disappointed about two things: 1) he missed an opportunity to entertain someone new, and 2) he missed one of his favorite bands. Well, Jake, they put on a great show but you probably wouldn't have been able to see much anyway from your perspective.

Jake's Weekly Video Pick

This week's video is from the Pipettes, a current British band pretending to be a 60's girl group. This one's animated, which is probably why Jake loves it, but in their regular videos they also have coordinated polka dot outfits and dance moves. They're fun. Jake likes to watch this video over and over and over. "More ABCs!"

Here is Jake watching the video intently:

Here is Jake clapping when it's over:

New Tripdub Feature

Here at Tripdub, we watch a lot of music videos. When done right, they are entertaining little movies set to music that last only 3 minutes or so, which is about equal to both Jake's and my attention spans.

We've been watching a lot of youtube lately because the MTV on cable is not the MTV that I remember. I know, everyone older than 25 complains about MTV not playing videos anymore, but seriously, what gives? They might as well change their name to RKSRTV (Rich Kid Staged Realty TV). Yep, I'm big on acronyms now that I work for the government. We have acronyms for everything. Everything, that is, except for the "Department of Defense Compilation of Acronyms." Yes, I'm serious. I have this book at work and they actually refrained from acronym-izing the title. Were they aware of the irony, or did they just forget?

But I digress. The purpose of this post is to introduce a new recurring post entitled:

"Jake's Weekly Video Pick."

This is not to be confused with "This Week's Useless Kid Product" which has been phased out due to several protestations about the usefulness of the Sta-Tuct Suspender System.

This week's "Jake's Weekly Video Pick" is:

Jake loves this video and can't stop saying "Grandpa, Grandpa!" since Grandpa has a treadmill in his basement and Jake gets to use it when he visits. I'm mostly impressed with the fact that these guys-- obviously not treadmill professionals-- recorded this whole sequence in ONE take. I can only image how many takes they did where they were 95 percent done and one of them messed up. I bet there are some funny stories there. If anyone from OK GO reads this blog, please feel free to post those funny stories.