When me and Todd went to Hawaii for our honeymoon we bought him a ukulele. Until Maksim started taking and interest in Todd's regular guitar playing, it's basically stayed in the case- not for lack of trying though. We weren't aware of the ins and outs of vinyl strings and how finicky they can be to tune in the first few days of use (read: constant tuning necessary.)
I tried to teach myself how to play the guitar years ago- but I stopped playing due to crap boyfriend reasons.
I decided last week that it would be a fun anniversary gift for me to prepare a concert for Todd including the our wedding song on the uke. So, on Sundee, I bought the kindle ipad edish of Ukulele for Dummies and found a few other awesome sites to learn chords, strumming patterns and other easy beginner techniques.
I posted on Reddit because I was so excited and wanted to tell someone about my plans.
I was being all funny and weird to him while I practiced- telling him that I was preparing for a concert and not playing whole songs in front of him because I didn't want to spoil the performance later in the week.
I thought I gave it away the other day when TBone was all, "Sweetie, you're not exactly being very secretive about what you're going to play at your concert, I know what songs you're playing."
So a little deflated having tipped my hand, I carried on with my rehearsals and played the ditty this morning for him, sans lyrics (I was too nervous!!)
TBone was cute: Very good sweetie.
Me: It's our song Sweetie!
TB: What song is that?
Me: Repeat performance WITH lyrics.
TB: OH!!!! I KNOW THAT SONG! THAT'S OUR WEDDING SONG!
Me: Sweetie, you told me you knew!
TB: Sweetie, I'm not very observant...
So there we have it.
Maksim the Super BB wasn't very happy to share his Uke. Most times when I would play in the living room, he would approach waving his hand in front of him "no, no, no!" Take the Uke and put it down out of my reach.
So Todd got him his own. PS- heart melts every time I hear Maksi say Da Bop (Maksim speak for Sponge Bob.)
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