Dad 2

Last year for Father's Day I wrote this blog post for my awesome husband.

This year I'm back with more.  Three more reasons why Carlos is a great dad.


1.  He makes the baby talk.

Carlos has provided a voice for our each of our babies since Ava was born.   I have always found it highly entertaining.

I'm easily amused.  And so mature.

But none of our babies have talked as much as Marshall, and none have had quite as much sass.  The girls think that it's the greatest thing ever.  Like, EVER!  Especially Ellia, who will do just about anything if "Marshall" asks her to.  (Much needed leverage.)

And if I haven't convinced you just how much they adore it...

A few excerpts from the Father's Day book they made for him:

"His favorite hobby is making the baby talk."
"I think he's funny when he makes the baby talk."

"I think he's funny when he makes my baby
brother talk."

"I love dad because he makes the baby talk."

Yeah.



2.  He caters the girls' tea parties.

 

 

A-dorable.  Enough said.



3.  He sacrifices his side of the bed.

On several occasions.

 

And for a few very good causes.


Happy Father's Day, you lucky guy!

Let's Parrrrty

My most unpredictable child just had a birthday.  And predictable me threw her a party.  With a theme, because otherwise I may die, remember?

I had a dream nightmare before Ellia's birthday that we had her party and...dun Dun DUN!...I had forgotten to make the party favors!!  Trauma!

Please feel free to recommend a good therapist.

Despite that obvious omen, everything went fine.  Nothing was forgotten.  Now I can spend my time worrying about more important things.  Like what will happen if I machine wash my 'dry clean only' bedspread?  And why did I buy a 'dry clean only' bedspread?

Back to the party.

This year Ellia had a thing for pirates.  Can you blame her?  Uhhh, hello Jack Sparrow!

(Secret:  I spent far too much time looking up pirate lingo on the internet last week.)
 

 

 

I knew making a stamp from a potato would come in handy someday.

 

Me hearties.  Aaarghh!

I may periodically dress Marshall up as a pirate now,
for obvious reasons.

Grandma and her scallywag.  Blimey, he's cute!



They be lookin' fer treasure.
 

 

 

Five beautiful years with the girl who wears high heels while searching for bugs, and plays dinosaurs while watching Barbie movies--we're all about high quality classics.

A force to be reckoned with.  For sure.