Greetings and welcome to today's random thought.
Highlights of my weekend...
- Conversation with a strawberry
- Our first Poker Night
- The daughter turns 5 1/2
1. Dad's are really the entertainers of the family. Saturday breakfast consisted of bagels with cream cheese and some fresh strawberries. Toward the end of the meal, I picked up a strawberry and started looking at it with a goofy, dad face. This solicited laughter from the kids (especially the daughter) and since I love an audience, the antics quickly escalated into a full fledge conversation with the strawberry. I would hold the berry up to my ear as if it were talking to me and then I would talk back to it (with some hand gestures). The initially conversation took only a few minutes and resulted in me getting very angry with the fruit and eating it. Of course the next words out of the kid's mouths were, "Do it again Daddy!"
2. We invited a family from our ABF over for pizza and poker. Other than watching poker on TV, they had not really played so it was truly a pile of amateurs attempting to bluff and check/raise each other out of our chips (we were not playing for any money, just honor). The pizza was from Brooklyn's (of course) and the wife had made some home made ice cream and cookies. The guests brought the snacks and drinks and we had ourselves a party. There were six of us playing and after about 90 minutes there were only 2 people left with chips. After one final "all in" pot, we had ourselves a winner and vowed that we would do this again real soon.
3. Sunday was the daughter's 5 1/2 birthday. I forget when I quit counting half birthdays but this was very important to her and she had been counting down to the day for a few weeks now. We did not do anything special really (she was not expecting us to) but she did decide that since she was "older" now, she would stop taking baths and start taking showers so she took her first real shower yesterday (with much assistance by the parents). Although she did not like the constant water in her face, she braved through it. I will admit it is much nicer than bathing her as I can at least stand up during the whole ordeal and it does take less time (though I am much wetter when done compared to a bath).
All in all, it was a great weekend. The weather co-operated somewhat but we had a great time. I have found that since my life / job is going better, I have less things to complain about and as such the blogs are further and further apart. I will not apologize for this fact as I much prefer not needing to blog than the alternative. Until next time...
Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.
Jon
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