"We started playing again because we knew that's what John would have wanted," says Carr. Pawlowski's father comes by from time to time for the comfort and company of his son's friends.
Carr and Kim are childhood friends. He says she and John III, born June 11, are doing well. Although, inevitably, there are dark days. Some are expected, like Pawlowski's birthday July 1, when they went to the cemetery.
Others seem to creep up on them.
Last winter, Pawlowski bought a fistful of tickets to last Thursday's Elton John and Billy Joel concert. When she laid her husband to rest, Kim put one of the tickets in his casket along with their baby's sonogram.