Yep, today's the day, his birthday. Very very very very excited day. One thing that he was looking for was tickets to go see Green Day when they came through Kansas City. Green Day is his favorite band, period, no questions asked. Grandma already said that she wasn't going to give him those, his mom wouldn't do it, so it all came down to Sam and I.
It was great. We got him the graphic novel Love is Love, something that he really wanted for some time (He saw it at a local book store and really wanted us to buy it, but with like a month-month and a half till his birthday, we said no [so we could have had something else for his birthday!]) but we bought the tickets, folded them up along the edges of the dotted line, and put it in the front of the book. When he opened up the book, he started to thumb through it, pulling out the tickets but put them back in the book almost as soon as he took them out, apparently thinking that it was nothing more than a cellphone bill or something like that since he saw the "Sprint" name on there (which the concert is at the Sprint Center in Kansas City).
I started laughing when he just went past it and finally when he came back to the tickets, he took them out again, and looked at them all strange like, slowly unfolded them, and was reading them closer and closer...until he finally found out what they were...and that was the time that I snapped this photo.
Let's just say...I think that made his day. Sam's parents also gave him a "gift card" so-to-speak, so their gift is money for merch at the concert. Sam's mom designed it, and I think it looks amazing. Here is what she did.
So yeah...he is stoked now. Since we only got two tickets, and I am the only one in the family who has ever really listened to Punk, I get to take him to the concert. So this is going to be interesting. I have never been to the Sprint Center before, and I really haven't gone to any concerts since I got out of the music industry about 15 years ago or so. I have already seen Green Day twice before, so it will be interesting to see them again. I think the last time I saw them was about 12 years ago maybe...but it was shortly after I got out of the industry.
All in all, I am just happy that Josh get's to go to really his "first" concert (he has been to others, but they were not really something that HE wanted to go to as much as he did for Green Day), so I feel honored to be able to take him to this event. Some good father/son experience.