Author Archives: Dad

Four-Wheeler

Tonight was a good night.

Pop and Gramms were moving a few things from Seminole into their new Lubbock house today so we drove by after work and school to say hi.

They just had new carpet put in – and were having a new washer, drier, and refrigerator dropped off when we got there.

The cool part was that they were headed back to Seminole for the weekend and taking you, H and K, to hang out for the two days!

The part that I loved was what happened before y’all ate dinner.

Pop was putting his four-wheeler up and offered to take K on a short ride around the adjoining lot.

As they started, H, you got out of the car with mom (from getting dinner) saying: “No fair! I want to go!“

Simultaneously, T, you were trying to swan-dive out of my arms and run towards all the fun, grunting, and whining, that you wanted to go too.

Hahaha.

Pop had to make three trips to satisfy all of y’all…

I love you.

-Dad

Absolute Ham

T, you were the sweetest little thing this morning.

It was a chapel day at school for H and K and mom had to be at work early.

We, of course, all usually go to chapel as a family – but my boss is in town from Arizona and I wasn’t sure what time he would be in the office.

So…mom took H and K and I changed your diaper, got you ready for school, feed you breakfast, and dropped you off.

You were such an absolute ham while you ate!

I was feeding you a honey bun and you were laughing and squealing at every little thing I did.

I must have leaned over and kissed you on the face a dozen or so times.

We listened to the radio together on the way to school.

As we were leaving the driveway, I asked if I could hold your hand.

You softly said yes and held it up for me.

So we held hands the whole way and then just sat in the car for 5 minutes after we got there, listening to 90’s country music, and enjoying the moment.

It was bliss.

I love you.

-Dad

Absolute Ham

Cacao

K, we were joking around tonight and you were quoting some line from Bluey.

You were also laughing about a scene in Storybots where a frog is telling how chocolate is made.

He keeps talking about “cacao” beans in this deep-voiced monologue, pausing here and there for dramatic effect.

We were laughing about it all and I told you I was going to start calling you “K-ca-cao.”

You said I wouldn’t – because I would not remember!

To which I said:

“That’s it. I am writing about this tonight. And you can read about this exact conversation for the rest of your life!

Boom. Done.

I never could find a video of that frog…

I love you.

-Dad