My Father's Son

Happy belated Father's Day to any dads out there. Eh, who am I kidding, nobody reads this thing. Happy Father's Day to ME!!!!!

Yesterday was a good day that started out with me not being able to sleep in. That was kind of a bummer. Also I heard my daughter yelling down the hall from her crib at about 8ish in the a.m. for me to come get her, which I did. We had a pizza for lunch from Chicago Uno, which was really good. We've been to the restaurant a few times before, but never eaten the 'infamous' deep dish pizza. I also got a free steak dinner for another trip in for being a dad, and my kids each got a free meal for their next trip in also. My lovely wife got nothing. I explained that because this was Father's Day, she wasn't entitled to free food. She didn't appreciate this explanation. We took the kids to Toys R' Us after the late lunch early dinner, which I call Linner, to help stimulate the economy with our newly received and since deposited IRS extra return $. We figured that since we got extra back because of the kids, they could each get something. So T got himself a new K'Nex set and some more Hot Wheels, and E got herself a Barbie camera that doesn't work, so that's going back.

We got ourselves the super turntable deluxe version of Scrabble. We've never really played board games against each other, as I knew I'd feel guilty about beating my wife, and equally bad about letting her win. But we figured we're mature enough to try this now. So we played our first game of Scrabble unscored and didn't go so well. We got stuck rather quickly, the second game, though, we used all our tiles, and had a really kick-ass looking board, which I took a picture of to prove to ourselves that we'd done it. We didn't keep score so I don't know how much I beat her by.

We've also recently let our son use our old HP digital camera. It sucks the life out of AA batteries, so we broke out the old charger and rechargable batteries for it. I found an old 256 mb card and dropped the cameras quality to as low as possible and he can now take about 750 pics on that card. He's really having a lot of fun with it and has already made plans to make sure the batteries are charged for his next trip down to Disneyland. Which, as far as I know, hasn't been planned yet. If he finishes with his current crop of pics, which is mostly images of his cars and his feet, I'll put some of the better ones up here so that you, too can enjoy the photographic genius that is my 5-year-old.