Girls

Steve said I could come post on here. First I had to know what "here" was, so I read just about all the posts and found alot of good stuff. Alot of guys are alot further on this "dad" thing than I am and it's good to hear some similar frustrations and guidance for the road ahead. But I found something lacking...

They're all stories about little boys. I don't have any of those. Just a little girl. I'm looking forward to having boys to do things like hide game pieces in underwear. But I'm not there yet. And the things that run through my mind about my child are sometimes very different than the thoughts I've read here. See, I think Luke's little love note is cute and all. But if it was aimed at my daughter (Ryann), I have to pursue the "clean the shotgun" angle. Or the "how many different ways can I teach her to kill boys" angle. I can't help it. It just happens.

Anyways, I've already written a big post about my daughter in my other place for writing (note: I hate the word blog. Or at least saying that I have one). So I'm just going to link to it. Keep posting. I enjoy reading your stories. Here's mine.

Young Love

The following is a poem Luke wrote for a young lady named Ella in his class:

Ella,
You are light as a flower
You are beautiful as a diamond
You love Luke,
I love you

Culture

LUKE: "Bob Ross is the bestest painter ever."

Barbarians or Wimps

There's a great article, Wimps and Barbarians: the Sons of Murphy Brown I came upon today in prep for next week's sermon. I found it google-searching Lewis' "men without chests" comment. It's worth a look.

Josh Schatzle

http://www.claremont.org/publications/crb/id.1192/article_detail.asp

Boys and their Pee-Pees

During bath time:

Luke: "Andrew your pee-pee is fatter than mine."

Then, after bath time Luke and I played our first game of chess. After coming down stairs he threw just the board up on the table.

Me: "Luke, you forgot the pieces."

With a huge smile that suggested he thought himself rather brilliant, he opened up his underwaer to reveal every chess piece in my house.

Luke: "where else could I put them?"
Me: "Maybe you could have just brought down the box they were in."

Andrew's Quote of the Day

After our dog Cinder threw-up in the kitchen, Andrew experienced his first ever "dry-heave". Obviously having no idea what was going on in his body he said:

"Mommy, when I look at Cinder's throw-up my mouth opens."