Waking Up Full of Awesome
There was a time when you were five years old, and you woke up full of awesome. You knew you were awesome. You loved yourself. You thought you were beautiful, even with missing teeth and messy hair and mismatched socks inside your grubby sneakers. You loved your body, and the things it could do. You thought you were strong. You knew you were smart. Do you still have it? The awesome. Did someone take it from you? Did you let them? Did you hand it over, because someone told you weren’t beautiful enough, thin enough, smart enough, good enough? Why the hell would you listen to them? Did you consider they might be full of shit? Wouldn’t that be nuts, to tell my little girl below that in another five or ten years she might hate herself because she doesn’t look...
Read MoreRiding the Trains
Yesterday was a day where Mommy was at work, and Samantha and Daddy were at home. We went out to storytime at our local library, hit the bakery for some stuff Mommy wanted, then came home. We sat there for awhile, and an idea popped into my head. We had talked about having Samantha ride the Dart High Speed Rail Trains. Trains are something I recall from my own youth with my father and brother. As you can see of this pic of my brother and I from the 70′s.. So anyway, Samantha & I were sitting at home yesterday, and I just thought – you know, why not right now? We weren’t doing anything special at the time, we had talked about doing it “sometime”, and we had a few hours to kill before we had to go pick up Mommy from...
Read MoreI Want to Work with Daddy
I got a phone call from my wife today, who decided to give me a report on what Samantha told her. Samantha said that when she grows up and is an adult, she wanted to come work with “Daddy & Mr. Bryan”. (Bryan is a friend and co-worker) When Lynn asked her what she wanted to do, Samantha said.. “Daddy has a second computer in his office, I will work with him!” “But what will you do there, Samantha?” “I can type and I will do email, and I can help him play Duke Nukem”. So basically Samantha thinks Daddy’s work is a cool place to be. She’s never played Duke Nukem, as it’s not appropriate for a three year old. But it was quite heartwarming to know my kid apparently idolizes me, as she wants to...
Read MoreSomething cool
Yesterday, something really cool happened with Samantha. My wife took her out to see a movie yesterday, and out in front of the movie theater is a rather large fountain. Samantha has always loved throwing pennies in there, and making wishes. The cool part is that Lynn said that Samantha was washing for things like “Daddy’s leg to feel better”, “For a healthy new baby”, for “A baby sister”, “for mommy not to feel sick”, things along that line. No toys, and NOTHING for herself. That’s really quite amazing that a kid won’t ask for anything for herself. Wow.
Read MoreGod Bless Samantha
In the last couple of months, we’ve found that Samantha’s emotions aren’t that of a really young kid. Oh, she just passed her third birthday, so we do get “three year old”-itis, but in general, she seems much more mature than her age is. She certainly doesn’t like it when Mommy or Daddy have any sort of raised voice. If that happens, or one of us sounds sad for any reason, she’ll usually go “What’s wrong, Mommy?” or “Are you OK, Daddy?” One of her other favorites is to say “Can you make a happy face?” When you’re not in a good mood, that one is hard to deal with, because you want to make her happy, and you know that she realizes you’re not happy. She’s...
Read MoreSamantha and my toys
Those who know me know I’m into toys – I have a ton of them at my office. Those who know me know I also am into Doctor Who. It’s probably my all time favorite TV show. In 2007, I’ve picked up a bunch of Doctor Who toys that are in my office. I’ve posted pictures of them before (link). Samantha refers to these things as “Daddy’s toys”. She loves it when I bring them home, and this past weekend, I brought home the large Tardis from the picture above, as well as the action figures for The Doctor, Martha, & Rose Tyler. Samantha was all excited about that. On Sunday afternoon, Lynn was out shopping, so Daddy decided to kill some time with Samantha and letting her play with “Daddy’s toys”. So...
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