The video below is so cute! As each letter disappears, Charlie says good bye…

KSA continues to work on it’s next album, with the intent of finishing principal recording by the time our daughter is born. It’s been very exciting working on this project and exploring my capabilities as a producer and engineer in my studio.

As an early treat, please enjoy the below version of Willow Song. This piece is still being worked on, but is a great representation of the new direction for this album.

Wordpress has been updated to the latest version; comment spam should be analiated; and with the wordpress app for my iPod Touch, I can post remotely. Yay.

And we’re back from the cottage and a lovely Labor Day vacation. Pictures can be viewed here.

Cheers!

WOW! What a week! First we learned that Charlie will be a big brother. There’s another little Lawton on the way. We can hardly believe it, it’s so exciting!

And on top of that, Charlie has said his first sentence! Sue was reading ‘The Lorax’ by Dr. Seuss, and at the part where the Swomee-Swans have to leave the forest of the Truffula Trees, Charlie says, “Where’d they go?” Sue replies that they flew away, and turned the page. Charlie moves Sue’s hand aside, and turns the page back, and says, “Where’d they go?!?” He knew that he put a complete idea together, cause he kept repeating himself over and over again, and still does so a few days later. Listen to the audio clip below, of Charlie saying his sentence, and some other word games that he and I play.

Wednesday night found me standing in the cold with my tripod and newly acquired Canon Rebel XTi and a 300mm telephoto lens given to me by my father in law shooting pictures of the total lunar eclipse. This was quite a treat given that the sky’s were perfectly clear over Milwaukee, though temperatures were in the low single digits zapping the power from my camera’s battery and the warmth from Sue and I as we watched.