Father's Day 2009

Last year on Father's Day, we had just found out we were expecting a little Curley and hadn't told anyone yet. Beans and the-little-Curley-on-the-way bought dad a BIG TV!

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This year... as the father of 4 month old Curley Q, not just any gift would do... We gave him the gift of TIME!

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A few weeks ago, several things in our kitchen started fritzing (I made up that word) at the same time. OK, so I accidentally "disposed" of a tiny tempered glass bowl in our garbage disposal and broke the disposal. (This is not the first time Kevin has had this little chore to do... but they shouldn't call it a DISPOSE-ALL!! It's so misleading!!)

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Then our dishwasher started leaking... and our sink started leaking... so off to the home improvement store we went. Kevin installed our new dishwasher like a pro... but ran out of time for the new SINK, FAUCET and DISPOSAL.... yes.... we spent a small fortune at Lowe's.... The days came and went, but Kevin was working like crazy and I was "disposing" of everything in the trash can instead of the much preferred sink.

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Although we would have liked to have saved the money on the installation of these items, we preferred to spend Father's Day weekend enjoying our Dad rather than watching him spend his free weekend sweating under the kitchen sink.

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So I hired a plumber while Kevin was at work and had it all installed as a surprise! He liked it.

He's such a good dad... We are lucky girls!

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We spent the actual Day with as many of our favorite fathers as we could!

Here are two peas in a pod...

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With her Pops...

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With her GranStan...

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And with Great-Grandpa in his garden! Leah and I hope we got his still-good-looking-and-gardening-at-93-years-old genes!!

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I don't have the words for a proper tribute to my husband on his first real Father's Day. Watching my favorite person on Earth become a dad has been the greatest thing I've ever experienced! He is the world's greatest dad. Thanks to all the dads pictured above too... for giving him such good examples of how to be a dad and helping him to start on a great foundation!

Excuse me, I have a hairball

First of all… I have an Olympics crush on Phil Dalhousser. How cute is he? He’s like a cross between Ben Affleck and Mr. Clean (two of the hottest hotties!) I’m not usually attracted to the bald-headed male, but, I’d really like to take his slick head right off his skinny thin-beast-of-a-body and slap it on Michael Phelps’ headless torso. I believe we’d have ourselves the sexiest Olympian alive. I’m really sad its all over... 2 years yet for the winter sports... But for a while we’ll still get to see all these summer guys on EVERY day time and late night talk show on TV. Someone be sure to tell me if they hear Phil is going to be on.

Girls… I need to discuss. When you have stray hairs that come out during the hair washing portion of the daily shower, don’t you stick them on the side of the shower so they don’t go down the drain and clog everything up? I know I’m not the only one, in fact just yesterday, I had this discussion with my friend Cassie who says she does the same thing. Unless you have boy-short hair or are having an affair with the roto-rooter man, I know you do this too! But Kevin just doesn’t understand. He thinks its SOOO gross and I am just SOOO gross for doing it. OK, so maybe I occasionally forget to take the hairball with me when I leave the shower and he rubs his shoulder up against in while taking a shower after me…sorry babe… but most of the time I take it and trash it and save him COUNTLESS dollars in Drano costs and plumbing fees. (See I’d rather be plumbing for more on this) He should really be thanking me every time he sees that hairball.

Along with other fun things about being pregnant… my hair is falling out... like I’m molting! I can fill the sink each morning with this hair that is still on my head, but not attached. And, immediately following the filling of the sink (I do pick up the hair out of the sink and and throw away each time so none will go down the drain or go all over the floor) is the daily hair-washing which produces an equally giant but WET version of the sink hairball, on the shower wall. All throughout the day I can be seen running my hands through my hair and coming out with countless strands and handfuls that are no longer connected to their follicles. Then at night I go through the sink filling cycle AGAIN! And what I have just detailed to you is a minimum... sometimes there is MUCH MORE HAIR!! Note that this is a year-round, life-long issue because I have LOTS of hair on my head, but it has multiplied by about 500x. (No... I don't think I'm being dramatic or over-exaggerating)

So, someone please explain to me how all this can happen....at the same time....that EVERY HAIR I have had painstakingly and "permanently" removed over the last few years, with a high powered (did I mention painful?) laser, has begun to grow back!!!

Hair on my head... kind of nice, I'd like to keep it... FALLING OUT!

Hair everywhere else... zillions of dollars spent on permanent laser hair removal.... growing in nicely! Really full and thick! FALL OUT WHY DON'T YOU!!

And the next person who tells me its the just the hormones... I might beat you with a wet hairball!

Forget skiing... I'd rather be plumbing...

I came home from work the other day for a few hours to meet the plumber so he could fix our toilet catastrophe. Do you know those guys charge $95 an hour??? (plus this and that and a service charge too!) Seriously now..... is that even legal? So I mention this to a couple of people at work and they say "well think about the gross stuff they have to deal with everyday." To that I say... if we're basing pay on the sliding scale of grossness, I should be making AT LEAST that much! I've been a nurse in Burn ICU, Medical ICU, Rehab and Wound Care and I could blog for the rest of your life about the gross and ungodly places I have had my hands..... The number of shifts I have spent "playing in poop" as we say, are countless!! So, I just don't buy this reasoning about undesirable working conditions! I have much love for the plumber, as they can do the things I can't.... like fix your broken potty.... but I take offense to their bloated fees! Is there something I'm missing? I'm thinking if I plumbed as much as I work right now, I could OWN a ski resort pretty soon!! I'm not completely ungrateful though -- any of you may come by now and use our guest bathroom with no fear!

Until next time...