We were half way through breakfast when the deviant, stubborn and iron will of Madison emerged. She wanted a booster seat, and when I told her "No" she started to try to work me. First with being sweet and telling me that she loves me and that I am pretty. When that got her nowhere she turned to trying to tell me that mom would get her a booster. I told her she needed to just eat and she came back with "I need a booster so I can reach my food" ... she could see and reach her food just fine. When I stood my ground despite about to laugh she shunned me. Turning around and telling me she can't hear me and will not turn around until she has a booster. (All the while Mason is playing against her with comments like "Today is fathers day you are supposed to listen to him today" and "Dad I am eating all my food". Of course Mason knew what he was doing and was laughing at Madison the whole time.) I finally convinced her that we needed to go and if she was still hungry she could eat a snack at church. She turned and smiled and told me ok with a mischievous grin on her face saying, I like to play games! (Beth and I are going to have our hands full in the future with this girl!)
I have to break from the blog of a second. I am watching the Spurs/Heat game, it is almost over. Just a comment... Michael Beasley is a ball hog!
Okay i am back...After church we met my parents, brother Alan, and my sister- in-law Katie's parents at Hog Wild. Not much funny events happened, or at least none that I noticed (there was 17 of us there so alot was going on).
We left Hog Wild, and headed home to watch some World Cup while laying down. The whole time Mason was asking to watch Baseball so I obliged and turned on the Texas Tech v. TCU game. He watches baseball with such intensely now, it is almost like he is breaking down film. It is quite funny.
We got ready and headed to the Randall Fathers Day Celebration at Uncle Marc's house. The food was great, the company was grand, the home made ice cream was really really good as usual. The highlight of the night was running around with Uncle Ryan. I told Kelli that she was welcome, M&m wore out her husband for her so he will sleep well tonight! Madison spent some time talking to cousin Logan, I can't even imagine what she was imparting on him. M&m and Ryan ran around some more... Logan decided he was just going to take a break and lay in his stroller, he was not in the mood to run in the heat and humidity.
Overall it was a great day, a day that wore the kids out.
I received my fathers day gift on Thursday right before Beth left.
The book that Mason is most excited about is the "How to Be a Man", a book he wanted me to read as soon as I opened it up. We read a chapter on how to interview for a job, and Mason did not understand half of what i was saying it made him feel important and that he was becoming a man. He asked me if he could have the book, I told him that someday I would had the book down to him and he can hand it down to his son. When I said that he just looked at me like he just won the golden ticket to tour a chocolate factory. Since Thursday anytime the book is brought up he makes sure to tell anyone and everyone that some day the book will be his and he will get to pass it down.
One final story from Fathers Day...
Uganda is 8 hours ahead of us, this means that when we are going to bed in KS Beth and the team is getting up for the day. The time difference makes it difficult for the kids to really get to talk to mom. But Beth and I get the chance to iMessage back and forth. Today was no exception. We talked for awhile about how the kids are doing, making sure I tell my dad and her dad Happy Fathers Day. She asked the loaded question baiting me for the "correct" answer "Do you guys miss me or are you fine without me there". I don't think I answered her the way she thought I was going to. (I can be slightly random at times, and down right crazy with some of the answers. And my response via text was lost in translation somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean.) I responded "I/We miss you to the same level that Liv Tyler missed Bruce Willis at the end of Armageddon." Beth responded "So you are equating me to your father?!?!" I meant it like this, that even though we are apart I know you are away doing what you need to do to make the world a better place. But Beth had to go so it was left that I am missing her but like a dad. We could call that a sweater v. nail moment. (Youtube "Sweater and Nail" and that reference will make sense.) Also I must apologize for not putting spoiler alert above when I ruined the end of Armageddon, that Bruce Willis dies saving the world, while Liv Tyler cries listening to Areosmith. The spoiler alert was my mistake, but while I am ruining movies Bruce Willis is actually dead the whole time in the Sixth Sense!
Have a good Fathers Day!
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