Guess Who's Back?

Back again?  My cousin Wyatt and his ukulele, that's who.  He's got a cute band mate too.  And of course my stellar skills as a videographer are on display.

Family dinners aren't just an opportunity for Wyatt to wow us with is musical talent. It's also a time for us girls (and one boy) to strike a pose.

Don't look directly at the belly.  Those lines can make you dizzy.

And just when I said "Pontifications from Paul" wouldn't become a regular feature, Paul goes ahead and delivers more material for me to make use of.  As I mentioned, Paul lives out of town, and as he was preparing to hit the road the other day, he told me he'd be back in nine days.

Me: You never know, the baby could be born by then!

Paul: What? No!

Me: Yeah!  We're only two and a half weeks from the due date.

Paul: Really?  Wow!  You look great, then!  I didn't realize it was so close.

Thanks, Paul.

Shelby

PS. Sometimes uploading videos and pictures and the formatting on Blogger makes me really mad.  Do you see how one of my paragraphs above is actually a part of the picture caption?  And do you think I could fix it?  Also, I had to create my own YouTube channel in order to upload that video.  Just saying . . . a post that should've taken me 20 minutes to publish has taken an hour and a half.  I'm done my complaining for the day.  Now you can go and complain to someone else about how you wasted six minutes of your life listening to me complain.  You're welcome.

Wyatt

I have a cousin named Wyatt.  He's 17 and an unusually cool guy, which is surprising if you had known him as a bug-eyed, ankle biting toddler.  Or if you had known him during the hot sauce phase.  See, as he got older, Wyatt sometimes made inappropriate word choices, and hot sauce was the consequence.  I believe the pinnacle of this phase was an incident at his elementary school running club where someone encouraged his teammates by shouting "Run, you bastards!"
But now, he's just about the most well-rounded, friendly teenager you could meet (besides his sister Sydney, of course).  There was the time he helped me put together a Justin Bieber costume for Halloween  using his prized American Apparel hoodie.

Biebs!  In my bedroom!

Or the adoration he (and his sister both) inspire in my niece and nephew's eyes every single time they visit (which is way more often than I think most high school kids visit their 2 and 4 year old second cousins).  In fact, they just spent the whole weekend with my sister and her family, visiting and baby sitting and basically preserving my sister's sanity.
Not only that, but Wyatt is musically talented.  He plays the harmonica and ukulele. You might be thinking, those are unusual instruments, and they are.  But even more unusual are the songs he can play on these instruments.  Songs like "OB-LA-DI, OB-LA-DA", and "Mr. Jones", and even Mariah Carey's "All I want for Christmas is You".  He treated us to some of his playing and singing this Christmas, and I took some less than stellar video of his performance.  Enjoy!