We didn’t make it out to the Brick Builder fun this weekend – but enjoyed spending the afternoon building a tower with HDiddy and LEGO mini-figs with Little Miss instead.
Category: Adventures in Fatherhood
Kid-Isms
Yesterday we visited Hidden Acres to take our annual family photos with Don Johnson.
As part of the adventure we got a couple nice kid-isms …
When we pulled into the main entrance of Hidden Acres and started driving down the main drive …
Little Miss: Daddy, I like it in here.
Me: You do? How come?
Little Miss: It’s nice and pretty with all the trees.
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When we stopped for a restroom break near an apparent sewer overflow …
IDiddy: Ewe. What’s that smell?
Me: I’m not sure.
HDiddy: It smells like eggs! And I like eggs!
What a day #dadlife
So you know your priorities have changed when you spill half a bottle of baby formula on your iPad at 2 am and your more pissed about wasting an expensive bottle of formula than the fact that your iPad might be toast.
(It wasn’t luckily.)
Fast forward a few hours…
After a long meeting where I gave two different demos for the team (on my normal day off) and the WiFi and projector in the room decided it didn’t want to play nice today… I had about an hour or so to spare before picking the boys from school.
There was a bit of a time crunch as I realized I needed to feed Little Miss at the same time I needed to pick up the boys. I also knew that the construction around our house would definitely delay my getting all three kids back home – which would make for one stressful ride home if Little Miss didn’t get her food on time.
Luckily my parents live near their (pre)school so I just hung out there beforehand and brought the boys back to their house after school. They love their grandparents (both sides) so they were more than happy to visit Grandma’s.
All was going well until right before we packed up to leave, IDiddy was on the kitchen floor screaming.
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Abba’s joy
“Imagine the ecstasy, the cry of joy when God makes a person in his own image! When God made you! The Father gives you as a gift to himself. You are a response to the vast delight of God. Out of an infinite number of possibilities, God invested you and me with existence.â€
– Brennan Manning, The Signature of Jesus
Theology with my boys
Before saying our prayers tonight my boys started explaining what they knew about God and asking a few more questions.
By the end of the day I think they settled on a few things…
1. God is upstairs
2. God is downstairs
3. We can’t see God
4. God leaves his home sometimes to go to the doctor
5. God is big
By the end of it all they had a bit of a debate on whether God was upstairs at our house (which we don’t have) or upstairs at his house.
I’m sure we’ll be able to come to an agreement on that sometime before the next Council of Blundell.
A new collection
I think it would be awesome to start a collection of various printings of To Kill A Mockingbird for Little Miss H.
It might give me a chance to read it again without having to take tests over it.