blessings

My dad used to have epic hair

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New dad

Nichole

  • My daddy’s name is Rick.
  • He is 57 years old, 6 feet tall and weighs enough pounds.
  • His favorite food is all of the foods.
  • My daddy is really good at mowing the lawn.
  • He loves to golf and hug Poppy & Pete.
  • My favorite things to do with my daddy are try new foods and hang out together.
  • I’m just like my dad because I can be, sometimes, a little bit stubborn.
  • What I love most about my daddy is he has a huge heart and a great smile.
  • It makes Dad happy when I visit.

    • Papa & Perry Mason

    Perry Mason

  • My daddy’s name is Pops.
  • He is 57 years old, 5-foot, 11 tall (he used to be 6′, but he shrunk) and weighs 192 pounds.
  • His favorite food is scallops. Might be ribs, but I’m gonna go with scallops.
  • My daddy is really good at oh, so many things! I’m gonna go with listening.
  • He loves to ride his bicycle and golf and ride his motorcycle.
  • My favorite things to do with my daddy are golf and eat the foods.
  • I’m just like my dad because I am wildly handsome.
  • What I love most about my daddy is … oh man! There’s so many things! That he’s a great guy..
  • It makes Dad happy when I come home.

    • (What, you didn’t think we’d fill them out, too?)

    Family matters

    “Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.”

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    I love them more than all the stars

    The kids and I are crazy about Rockford. I am notoriously bad at Occasions, though, so the poor guy rarely gets an adequate amount of celebration. I still haven’t gotten him a Father’s Day gift or a card, but I did print off a Fathers Day survey for the kids to fill out for Rockford. (Thanks for the link, Jeni!) Their responses:

    Poppy

  • My daddy’s name is [full name, including obscure and hard-to-pronouce first name].
  • He is 32 years old, 32 feet tall and weighs 55 pounds.
  • His favorite food is tacos.
  • My daddy is really good at mowing the lawn.
  • He loves to have Daddy & Poppy time.
  • My favorite things to do with my daddy are play Candyland and be with him.
  • I’m just like my dad because I love him.
  • What I love most about my daddy is he loves me back.
  • It makes Dad happy when I obey.
    • Pete

  • My daddy’s name is Uncle Rockford.
  • He is 10 or 1 years old, 5t tall and weighs very much pounds.
  • His favorite food is flakes that Mommy likes.
  • My daddy is really good at his favorite new video game.
  • He loves to play some of LarryBoy with me.
  • My favorite thing to do with my daddy is play with his favorite games called LarryBoy.
  • I’m just like my dad because I am three. That’s why I’m bigger.
  • What I love most about my daddy is playing some more video games.
  • It makes Dad happy when I play Phineas & Ferb on the Wii.

    • Our friend Addy filled out the survey, too. She said her dad’s name starts with “Uncle,” too, and that he’s good at “getting stuff to eat in the morning.”

    The title quote is from The Cos, of course.

    Reading

    On snacks and spooky stories

    BlogHer Book Club @ Butterscotchsundae.comI wrote another review for the BlogHer Book Club, and it’s very ramblesome. The book in question: “A Discovery of Witches.” The snack in question: Cheetos. And yes, there’s a connection. Be it ever-so tenuous. Here’s a bit of it (the review, that is. Not the connection):

    I found myself missing the really menacing monsters. And so I stopped reading about the supernatural again. No more monsters for me. (Always more Cheetos for me, sadly.)

    Then Deborah Harkness starting hanging around my corner of the internet. And rather than pulling my collar up tightly and picking up my pace, I decided I could handle it. Just one book can’t hurt, right?

    Click here to read the whole review. Here’s a spoiler: I liked the book a lot.