Difference between boys and girls

Kellie called yesterday to tell me about a tea party Tanis was having. He and some Lego guys were playing with a tea set and the mini wood stove. Kellie asked him what they were doing, and he told her that the bad guy was in the stove. He later said the bad guy was the stove. I have always told her that if you give a boy two of anything one will be good one will be bad and the two will be crashed into each other. Give a girl two of something and they will get along and build a house or whatever. Boys have to be boys. You build something so you can knock it down. A car is supposed to crash into other things. Pets are supposed to be ridden. Boys will make anything into a gun or put a gun on anything. A pencil will have a laser or is a laser itself. It is funny how different boys are. I told her some days he will just want to be mischievous and break things. Love ya guy.

Birthday Blues

Another birthday looms on the horizon. They don't mean as much as they used to. Tanis gets excited, he loves to give presents, although he really likes to help open them. Kellie and Tanis made some clear shelves for me in the basement so I can show off my Lego sets. Mom bought me the Sand Crawler which is 1500 pieces. Tanis can't wait to put it together. I think it will take a couple days to put it together, but we are going to give it a real try on Friday. Mom goes in for surgery Thursday. Kellie, Tanis and I went bowling on Saturday. Kellie actually won the first game, but I think the bumpers helped a little. Tanis really wants to go miniature golfing again, he had a lot of fun the last time, and the course we went to had 2 different courses. Work is picking back up. I know I had sworn him off, but I bought a new Clive Cussler book today. Love ya guy.

Time Moves Forward

Well it official, at least to me, I am called dad now more often than daddy. I feel this makes us both older. He is growing up, and no longer using the baby terms. If he is getting older then I am getting older. I am so proud of Tanis. He tries very hard to be independent and likes to try to do things himself. I guess I will accept I am dad and be there for him as he grows. Love ya guy.

Catching Up

Kellie had lasik surgery yesterday. It is pretty interesting how quickly they do it. She is healing and already has better sight. She handled it quite well. It was a little pricey, but I don't think that you look for deals when it comes to your eyes. The doctor who did her procedure has been doing them for 25 years for the Air Force.

The new dog Izzy has been doing well, but she still hasn't been completely house broken, and it is starting to weigh on some nerves. She is getting a little better, but Pugs are not the easiest to train.

Mom has her knee surgery coming up very soon, about a week, and the contractor is not done yet. It is going to be a challenge to see if he will get it done before the surgery. She is going to stay with Janis for a while after the surgery.

Tanis is doing well. He keeps going through phases. Right now he is on a real Transformers infatutation. Luckily he forgot about my box of them in the basement. He also loves to build robots. It is very hard to build robots out of tinkertoys. He has done well at tee ball, but I think he is a little young.

Work is going well. My diet has not done very well. I am having a hard time getting focused on it. I was talking about you on Saturday and really started to miss you. Love ya guy.

This Past Weekend

This past weekend was your golf outing. It was a mixture of emotions. I had fun golfing with mom, Larry, and Scott. We didn't do well, in fact we tied for last place. That is right, we couldn't even win last place out right. It was fitting that it rained some as the one person said every time you scheduled an event there it would rain. People shared experiences about you. Larry told me a story that was pretty funny, but not appropriate to post. A lot of people "heard" you on the golf course. I heard "keep your head down." Other heard "Oh Robert." It was fun, but sad because it would have been a lot more fun to play the round with you. I must admit I love the hybrid club. Saturday night Kellie and I met Scott and his wife Andrea at the sun festival. We paid to get in and then bought tickets to taste micro-brews and wines. Uncle John's cider mill had a hard cider that was pretty tasty, but we tried a few that weren't tasty at all. We had Sir Pizza for dinner. In the morning we met mom, Cheri, and Alex for breakfast. We headed home, but did make a few stops on the way. It was a bitter sweet weekend, old wounds were opened, it was fun but sad. Love ya guy.

Light

The light stuff, I have a jar (I still need to clean t out) so my 4 pennies will have a home. I will continue to look for Wheat pennies to fill the jar. Boston came out last night and stomped all over the Lakers to win by 39 points. Tiger had an 18 hole playoff and it still had to go to a sudden death playoff, Tiger won.

Some Thoughts

Sunday was Father's Day. I missed you. I have decided to do something inspired by you. You used to collect Wheat pennies in a jar, I have decided to start doing this as well. I have 4 of them so far, and no jar but it will come along. I also learned how hard it must have been for you. It seems very hard to find a balance between work and family. I know that we work for our families and sometimes that takes us from our families. I know we let them down sometimes because we have to do something. It must have been even harder on you because you owned the business and you had only yourself to count on. I can not imagine the stress. Cheri and Alex had fun at MIS, mom went and saw her brother. I spent this weekend working, although Friday Kellie and I had fun celebrating our anniversary. We went to a comedy club and saw Tom Wilson, he played Bif on Back to the Future, he was pretty funny. We went to Brasa afterward, Brasa is a Brazilian restaurant where they bring all kinds of meat out to you, the Parmesan crusted fillet was the best. The other thing we did Friday was buy Kellie a new car. We bought her a Jeep Liberty with a slider roof, the roof opens up almost the full length. For fathers day I got a Lego set and some cards. The cards were pretty cool, and put the Lego together this morning. It is the Well of Souls from Indiana Jones. Tans really likes to play with all of the snakes and make the wall crash open. So much is going on right now I don't even know what is going on. I missed you on Sunday so I am wishing you a Happy Father's day because you will always be my dad even if you aren't here anymore. Love ya guy.