City Beer

A friend of mine kindly invited me to join his posse for SF Beer Week this weekend. Unbeknownst to me, 'yesterday Ben', who I sometimes don't communicate with, had already done the very nice thing of promising to watch Emmett whilst Karen went out with the girls for a well-deserved Saturday of fun. 

Well! As you can imagine, yesterday Ben and 'earlier today Ben' had a nice long talk (we yelled, we laughed, we cried, we sang campfire songs). 

After that was all sorted out, I ('in the moment Ben') decided to make a try for the City Beer event to which I was invited. With Emmett.

We waited for just the right moment before heading out for a little dad-and-son fun in the sun. Emmett just woke from a nap, got diapered, and got fed. We were almost set. I packed up my diaper dude (don't leave home without it), got my baby bjorn, applied my sunscreen, checked my reflection and headed to the car with the baby. 

After a nice, careful drive over to City Beer, I found some parking and began the process of unstrapping and restrapping the baby. I first unstrapped him from the car seat; I then restrapped him to me with the Bjorn, carefully adding his little hat so he wouldn't get hypothermic. 

At the event I discovered to my dismay that there was quite a line to get in. My buddies directed me to the doorman who was handing out numbers. One of them remarked that Emmett looked a little sad. "How could he be sad?" I thought. He's out and about on a beautiful day having just been diapered, fed and napped. 

Well we discovered that number giving men with booming voices have quite an effect on the little guy. He cried with displeasure at the timber of the number man's voice. He was very sad, but only for a moment! He quickly composed himself using the zen mediation technique he learned listening to the Baby Buddha tapes he got for Chinese New Year. 

Once in this state he is quite impervious to the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. Our other friend came out to say 'hi', and helped us to snap this snappy photo:

We were able to weather about 10 more minutes of waiting before we had to split. But all-in-all, it was a very good outing.