H, your class is a bunch of teacher assassins.

No joke, if you have a teacher – that teacher is probably gone within a year.

It’s actually been kind of amazing to watch…

Kindergarten teacher – disappeared and never came back after the first week of school.

Kindergarten replacement teacher – quit at the end of the year

First-grade teacher – retired at the end of the year.

Both second-grade teachers – somehow all lived.

Third-grade teacher – moved at the end of the year.

Fourth-grade math teacher – quit ten weeks into school.

Y’all straight-up murdering teachers. 🤣

I love you.

-Dad

H, I got to baptize you today.

We met Mrs. Pam at the glass doors by Big Gig and she walked us back to the baptism room.

We split up between boy’s and girl’s dressing rooms and an older couple helped us change into our swimsuits and t-shirts.

(Speaking of that couple that helped us, I had worked with the husband at ARMtech. His name was Sam and he was a compliance attorney, but is now retired.)

Then we met Danny Henderson (Danny Jay’s grandpa) and we all chatted for a few minutes and said a prayer.

I’m not gonna lie, the water in the baptistry was so warm it felt like a day at the spa…

Thankfully I just did the dunking while Brother Danny did all the talking.

I like how he told the story of how simple it was the night you prayed to accept Christ. You got out of bed shortly after tuck-in and got mom and I, simply saying, “I need to talk to you about something.

Honestly, I barely held it together standing in that warm water.

But I saw mama and she was crying like she was harvesting onions.

My goodness, ok, I’m getting all weepy again typing this.

Anyway. 😭

Hannah and Mrs. Leandra were in town to watch you and slept over at our house the night before.

All the Daves came to town too and we went out to eat at Rosa’s afterward with Pop and Gammies.

It was all over in a moment, but it was just the sweetest thing.

I love you forever and I am so proud to be your daddy.

I love you.

-Dad

H, you gave me the best Christmas present this last year, a PopSocket IPhone holder with a Batman logo on it.

It’s one of those things that attaches to your phone case and lets you hold your phone in one hand.

Anyway, people often ask me about it when they see it.

Once a guy on a flight, and wearing a Batman shirt, even stopped me to say he liked it!

My favorite thing was showing the logo to a few of the girls in your class one day while yall were leaving chapel.

I flashed the back of my phone and then whispered:

Want to know a secret? I’m batman.

Everyone giggled, you the most.

This has become such a thing that one of the girls there that day passed me on the way to school a few weeks later and casually said:

Hi, Batman.

😂 It all makes me laugh.

Thank you for the gift and for all the silliness that has come with it.

Some people argue that Batman does not have a superpower.

But you and I know that’s not true…

I love you.

-Dad