he plays the ukulele

You may remember this dashing young man from a previous post. He was rockin' a black pea coat in some cool black and white photos that, in his father's words, had a flavor of Jason Bourne to them. (Totally! Google an image of "Jason Bourne in a pea coat")  Today, however, let me show you another side......

Girls, he plays the ukulele.

And he played on the varsity football team.
(Get this guy his own television series!)

Aaaaand, he has a girlfriend.

While I was enjoying the backdrop of an awesome blue-tiled gymnasium wall, his girlfriend arrived. 

I totally captured the moment (below) when he spotted her walking towards him. Made me smile.

Isn't that sweet? I offered to take a picture of the two of them but she declined (wearing sweats, no make-up on, you know, totally beautiful, but whatever). So this was the closest thing I could get to a photo of her...

Though I tease, I really enjoyed his good, sweet nature, and the fact that he was willing to stand around and have his picture taken, with Mom and me in the background chatting and making him laugh as if this was what every senior boy did on a Saturday morning. It made the time fly.

I was going to end the post here but then I felt the need to say something about these...

Friends, he showed up to his photo shoot in these slippers. At first I thought... 

Hey, come comfy and ready to roll--I like your style.

But then I was educated. 

This is the new, hip thing to wear, not just with your pj's or sweats at home after work, but also when you leave your home. You guys, this is for real. You wear them all of the time, with whatever you are wearing and wherever you are going.

You get out of bed pull on your pants, slip on your cheap-o Target slips and then cast not one look at your abandoned, lonely shoes in the corner. Shoes are a thing of the past. Now, because your slippers have the seal of approval by the highly influential teenage demographic that has sanctioned these as street and fashion worthy, you can, and you do, wear your slippers to the grocery store, or to the mall, or the football game, or a photo shoot. Then, when you return home, you revel in the fact that you do not have to kick off your shoes, because hey, you don't have your shoes on, you already have your slippers on! And, when they are totally gross with street crud and whatever else they have picked up, you just toss them in the garbage, head on over to Target, and hope they have your size.

Friends, is that convenient or what?

I was so amused I had to grab a shot of them. Because some day I want Mr. Brown to look back and remember his youth. Just like I look back on pictures of myself in high school with sky-high, hair-sprayed bangs. Yeah, I thought they were cool back then too. 

What I want to say to Mr. Brown is...

You cannot go wrong with the classics. Stick with the black pea coat.  

Am I right, or am I right?