Ok, so we all know it was father’s day but poor Elyssa just could not get “father” out correctly, so in order to accommodate her we changed it to “Happy Daddy’s Day”. I spent most of the morning with Elyssa Sunday morning practicing “Happy Daddy’s Day”. Eddie was out side working on the pool and watering our new trees so we had some alone time to get these 3 words down. She was so cute, I asked her “What are you going to say to daddy when you see him” and she would say “Happy Daddy’s Day”. We did this over and over again. She had it down perfectly even her own added “Surprise” at the end. So we came downstairs and got Daddy’s father’s day gift out of the closet where we had hid it and I called him in from outside. The whole time prepping Elyssa in the background and she was saying over and over again “Happy Daddy’s day!” Well Eddie walks in the door, she is holding her “bag” for daddy and the big moment was there and ……..you guessed it NOTHING. She would not say it at all, I kept telling her to say it, coaxing her to say it, she just stood there with the bag saying “daddy, surprise”…hmmmm, ok, so close but no cigar! We tried, really we tried to get it right. She really was saying it but when the big moment came, she froze like a deer in the headlights. O’well, maybe next year right? I can say that she did indeed say it for daddy after the fact and several times that day, just not at the big moment! She got Daddy a #1 Dad shirt and matching #1 Dad cap and some Dallas Cowboys decals for the car. Daddy had to wear the shirt that day and to the airport since he was flying out on Father’s day as well to Omaha, NE. Fro dinner Daddy took us all out to Texas Roadhouse. He picked that place because it is Elyssa favorite restaurant. She loves the dinner rolls, sweet potatoes and of course the rice. Mommy and daddy love the place because it is so loud in there that no one hears screaming kids throwing tantrums and since we are in the terrible two’s we are always prepared for some kind of fit! I got Eddie his father’s day gift early so he already had it before Father’s Day. He got a new Garmin GPS system, it is an upgrade to his old one (I got the old one), and he got a new semi-pro digital camera he had been wanting. I think he did pretty well for Father’s Day!
On Saturday before Father’s Day we took Elyssa to a beach on Lake Lavon. She has been bugging mommy to “go to beach play sand and watie mommy”. She has read some of her books where the people go to the beach and play in the sand and water and she wanted to go as well. I guess it is not good enough that she has a pool in the backyard and her own sandbox; she wanted to go to the beach. We took Aunt Tonia and her dog Princess with us to the beach and Elyssa had an incredible time. She had so much fun and is such a little dare devil in the water. She wanted to go out deeper and deeper. Of course mommy was watching daddy with her and kept getting scared that he would drop her or something…isn’t that just like a paranoid mom??? Yeah, that’s me…. We can’t wait to take her back again. Watching her little face light up and hearing her little giggles were worth every single minute…
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