Father's Day

Father's Day

Phil deserves more than just one day honoring what an incredible father he is. Hayden's face lights up every time Phil comes home from work, and their bond is extremely special.

To celebrate the day, we went to the Fenders on Front street car show in downtown Issaquah. It featured cars from the early 1900s up to about 1970s. Hayden enjoyed the view from the backpack and kept saying "Old Car", which I am amazed he is able to distinguish the old cars even when we're just out driving on the road and in books. I guess he truly is his Daddy's son!

We got Phil one of those recordable greeting cards and it was funny trying to get Hayden to say something for the recording. When you press the button, the voice says, "Please record your message after the beep" and then there's a beep. At first, Hayden would just say "Meep, Meep" thinking that's what he was supposed to do. And of course since that made me laugh, he kept doing that. After about 50 tries over 2 days, I finally got him to say "Hi Daddy, Vuv You". SO sweet. After the message it plays the song, "I Wanna Be Like You" from the Jungle Book and has Mowgli and Baloo on the card. Phil took the card to work and said he listens to it when he needs a little smile.

Then I loaded a 2GB SDcard with a photo slideshow with over 130 photos of Phil and Hayden together from when Hayden was first born, up to present day. Funny how almost all the photos from when Hayden was a few days old are of Phil and Hayden napping together. We have an 8x10 digital photo frame, so the SD card can just stay in the frame and play the slideshow anytime. Hayden really enjoys looking at it too. And I think seeing all the photos of himself as a baby help prepare him for Baby Sister's arrival, too.

For dinner that evening, we went over to Phil's parent's house with all the other family. We got to meet our niece Madison for the first time and enjoyed a nice meal with everyone. Hayden always loves going to Grandma's house! I'm glad they live close by so we can see them so often.

To cap off the day, on the drive home, there was a brilliant, full rainbow in the sky right over our neighborhood. At one point, it even looked like the end was at our house, but unfortunately, there was no pot of gold waiting for us on our doorstep. Of course, we already have an incredibly fortunate life in our family. :)

Happy Father's Day, Phil. And to our Dad's and Grandpa's too.