dreaming.....

......of being with you, on Father's Day, Dada!

Jon, we miss you so much. I hope we never have to spend another Father's Day apart from you!

This is so hard. Clearly, we all miss you so much. Everyday, I feel the pain of your absence and can't wait for the day that our family can be together again. Being without you has shown me just how much we love you, and appreciate you, and cherish you, and need you. I'm sorry you're missing us/me/them, but I am so proud of you. While I struggle with them everyday, I can't imagine how much you must be missing them right now.

Know that we love you every minute of every day or every hour.

Happy Father's Day, Dada! Now make that movie and come back soon!


PS: Past Father's Day love: 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011,

daddy's second father's day!

For a while there, I was thinking this was Daddy's first Father's Day. Then I realized it's not. So for Second Father's Day, I know you wanted to tell him some things so I promised you I would write it down so we wouldn't forget:

Dadadada,

1. I love it when you chase me around the room even if you are tired from a hard day at work. You say, "I'm gonna get you! I'm gonna get you!" and then I giggle and try to crawl away really fast but I keep turning around with a big grin on my face.
2. I love it when you read me bedtime stories, even though I don't really concentrate yet and would rather pull the books off the shelf one by one til I am sitting on a big pile of books. But trust me, I love hearing your voice read all those stories to me. And I will start listening soon, I promise.
3. I love it when you stretch in the morning and you let me crawl all over you, even when you are upside down and I am in the danger zone because you can't see where I am. But I know you would never put your legs down on me and crush me, because you love me so much and I know you will never hurt me.
4. I love it when I am in bed in the morning and I crawl over to your side and pull the blanket to the side and you say "Oh, Good Morning!" and I am so happy to see you first thing in the morning. I grin to show you my seven little teeth and to tell you how happy I am to see you too!
5. You haven't been wrastle-ing with me lately, usually because you get home late, and when we try and wrastle a little, mama says "don't get him all riled up! he's going to bed soon!" and she says it like I'm not right there and can't hear everything she's saying, but maybe this weekend we can catch up.

Love, Jackson

Jon, you are the best father I could ever have imagined. Jackson is the luckiest little boy on earth. We love you - Happy Father's Day!

happy father's day, Dada!

 

Dada,

For the second year in a row, we're not being with you on Father's Day. It goes without saying that we all miss you so much. So for you, a poem that Cade brought home yesterday (full of references that he has no idea what they mean):

You're the peanut to my butter
the star to my burst
the pop to my tart
the fruit to my loop
But most
importantly,
You're the
BEST to my FRIEND!
Happy Father's Day!

We love you more than any poem could ever express, and certainly more than one blog post could say. We love you more than the loops in the fruit.

PS: Past Father's Day love: 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013

happy father's day, Dada

Dear Dada, 

I love you because (tell me 10 things you love about Dada):

1. cuz I love him

2. because I know that he works at work

3. because I love to play with him

4. I love to play and go downstairs with him

5. he makes macaroni

6. fish game

7. i love it when you do airplane

8. when you read the thomas book to me

9. takes me to the store and we buy a toy

10. when I go to the playground with him  

That's it.

Love, 

Jackson

Dear Dada, 

(Do you love Dada?) Yus. 

(Do you like Dada to read to you?) Yus. Tho-mas. (What else?) Thomas. 

(What toys do you like to play with Dada?) Thomas. 

(What food do you like Dada to make you?) Cereal. Egg. Me too eat cereal egg. 

(What else do you like about Dada?) Cereal. 

Love, 

Cade

Happy Father's Day, DADADADA! We all love you so much. You are the best father in the world, hands-down.

Also, because you let us do things like this, and Mama doesn't:


PS. We've always loved you.

father's day present

Jon, Jackson made you this construction for Father's Day - it is a playground with a note that says, "to Dad I like to to play with Dad." I didn't want to send it to you because I'm not sure if you had a good place to properly display it. It will wait here for you.

And here's his card:

Happy Father's Day Dada!

Dada,

You know how much I love you: you know it by the way I sit at the window and wait for you to come home, by the way I throw my little arms around you to give you a hug, then pull back and reassess you before I give you a big kiss (to make sure you're ready for it, I think), by the way I ONLY want to play with you in the morning, and if I don't, boy do I sure let Mama know that I am not happy about it, and by the way I squeal with delight when you do Robot Daddy, or pick me up and fly me around the playground, or run around and around and around the closet in the entry way over and over and over again with me.

I know you will be bringing a new baby home and I know you are going to be the best Daddy to him too. Just think of how well I prepared you for it! Just remember, I taught you everything you know. You don't have to thank me, but you know, just want you to remember.

Happy Father's Day Dada. I love you so incredibly much. More than last year, if that's even possible.

Love,
Jackson

VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE!

Ok, all four of you who read this blog - please go VOTE now for Jon and Cade in the Best Father's Day Photo Contest. Because I really want to win four tickets to WALKING WITH DINOSAURS at Barclay's Center!

http://www.timeout.com/new-york-kids/things-to-do/vote-for-the-winner-in-our-2014-fathers-day-photo-contest

They're the last picture so scroll to the right.....Many thanks many thanks many thanks!

Update: We didn't win. Wah-wahhhhh. 8/14/14

happy father's day, Dada!

Dada,

I find it so hard to believe that this is your first Father-of-two's Day. I can't believe when I look back at last year's post and see only pictures of you and Jackson! Needless to say, this year has been crazy - and when I think back on it - what I'm most grateful for is you. Life would be impossible without you. Thank you for your unending help, patience, love and understanding. Thank you for cooking, cleaning, getting up in the night to sooth Cade with your magic touch. Thank you for making me laugh on the inside even if I didn't laugh on the outside. Thank you for everything.

You are an amazing father. It lifts my heart to hear your key in the door every night. And to hear Jackson's little footsteps run across the room to greet you every night. And to see Cade lift up is arms to you when he sees you.

We love you.

Love, Mama

only 3 more days.....

til Father's Day. To celebrate, maybe we'll make this, one of your dad's favorites:



{recipe here}