Check out that Superman leap from the diving board! This was the pool party on Sunday for all the kids from Vacation Bible School. A big thanks to Mrs. Kristen and all the volunteers that made FUMC VBS a hit! And thanks to the Murray Country Club for hosting our party. There was pizza and swimming for all and everyone had a great time. Can’t wait for VBS next year!
Saturday was Murray Parks’ annual event “Hooked on Fishing not on Drugs.” It’s a free fishing event at Imes’ Farm. There’s plenty of free snacks and food, the kids get a free t-shirt and (really nice) tackle box. Several of the FLW fishing pros brought their boats and signed autographs. (Liam’s favorite was the “Pop-Tarts boat.”) Ducks Unlimited even set up a compound bow archery range for kids. I think we spent most of our time there. Looks like lil’ Robin Hood’s gonna need his own bow.
Liam caught 3 fish on his own (look closely at the picture) and the only sad part of the day was that Granddad wasn’t there to fish with him. Daddy tried to be a good fishin’ buddy, but when it comes to fishing there’s just no substitute for Granddad.
Check out all the photos on our photo page.
Those of you that “take a paper” as my grandmother would say, check the front page of Monday’s Murray Ledger & Times for 2.0′s full-page debut. We were at the Murray City pool on opening day and a news photographer snapped him up. I’ll agree, it’s a great picture, but the one’s of him on the diving board are even better!
You should’ve seen the line for the diving board. About 15 kids, aged 12-20 lined up to take their Greg Louganis, and in the middle of them all was a 3-year-old, beaming a smile from ear to ear. “Daddy, I’m jumping like the BIG BOYS!” Way to go, kiddo. Way to go.
For the full news article, visit The Murray Ledger & Times website.
Daddy got a Kindle!
Yesterday was my 30th birthday. And to celebrate my headlong jaunt into obsolescence, my family got me a brand spankin’ new Amazon Kindle 2. This thing is really cool. For those of you not among the digerati, the Kindle is Amazon’s e-book reader. It’s basically an electronic book. Using an e-ink screen that simulates text on paper, the Kindle can download books from Amazon.com over the air with its free built-in cellular connection and store 1,000 of them internally. I have a subscription to USA Today and wake up every morning to the daily edition waiting for me on my Kindle… automagically!
I’ve read several short stories on it so far, Stephen King’s Ur and Cory Doctorow’s Overclocked stories and on Wednesday will begin my first full-length novel via Kindle. The only caveat is I can’t decide what to read first. I’m leaning toward Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, but I love the idea behind Max Brooks’ World War Z. Of course I was recently reminded that I’ve never read either of the cyberpunk staples Cryptonomicon or Neuromancer. Also, I’d love to finally get through Deception Point. Ooh, and the rest of the Dark Tower series, and all of the Southern Vampire Mysteries. And some Tom Clancy, and Michael Crichton, and….
Why is it I feel my literary budget is about to increase drastically?
My 3-yr-old is sick. I hate it when he gets sick.
It started yesterday when I picked him up from school. When I arrived he was kind of sleepy and lethargic. He stood up from his chair and started crying. Daddy does not like for his little man to cry… makes me cry. So he’s standing there crying and Daddy bends down to give him a hug. (Not sure if you know this, New England Journal of Medicine confirms: Hugs make it all better.) And that’s when it all went wrong.
I’m not sure exactly how many times he threw up. I was busy performing my best Spider-Man impression in a contorted effort to clear the blast radius. (There are a LOT of yuckies this daddy handles and handles well. Puke is not one of them.)
So he’s standing there in tears and I’m prancing about like Brittney Spears off her meds when I suddenly remember that it’s not 1592 and if I get sick on my clothes I can just wash them. So I kneel down (In vomit. Yes, I am the best father in the world. Thanks for noticing.) and scoop up the little sickly for to give him all-better hugs.
He spiked a temp (that’s hospital talk, Dr. Carter) in the night but a little children’s Tylenol brought him around. It’s a great thing Mommy is off today and can take care of the little prince. Here’s praying for a quick recovery. Nobody likes to see little kids sick, no matter how precious it can be.
(Related note: Anyone know how to get vomit off of a leather shoe?)
