Father's Day 2006

Today we celebrated our first Father's Day as a family. Father's Day will always hold a special significance to our family. It was exactly 2 years ago, on Father's Day, that we completed our application for adoption through Dillon International. We knew that we'd have a child, but we never imagined that this wonderful little boy would be the result of the endless mounds of paperwork. We are truly, truly blessed.

The day started with Ian and Daddy trying to sneak up on Mommy. Ian's still trying to master that. He gets more excited the closer he gets and he starts giggling. It's so sweet. After we played for a few minutes, we gave Charlie his Father's Day gifts. I had to keep them at my office for over a month so I wouldn't be tempted to give them to him early. I'm so bad at keeping stuff like that. Anyway....he read his cards and then opened his presents. We got him the latest in the Charles Shultz Peanuts collection (I think it's years 59-60). But, his big present was a new watch. Not just any watch....a Cleveland Indians watch. Charlie is a HUGE Cleveland Indians fan....rephrase....HUGE Cleveland Sports fan. It really doesn't matter the sport, as long as it's Cleveland. He does tend to favor baseball a little. I also got him a new baseball cap. In addition, I got Ian his first Cleveland Indians baseball cap and a romper. Of course, the hat and the romper are a little big on him, but he'll probably be able to wear them next summer if he doesn't hit a major growth spurt. Charlie loved everything.

We were finally all dressed and headed to church. Ian was very vocal this morning. Not crabby or anything, just talking. He's starting "singing" in the car. He is going through a bit of separation anxiety right now. He cries when when we leave him. This morning when we left him in the nursery at church he started to cry and then the worker gave him a ball to play with and all was good. When we picked him up they said that he did great (as usualy), but he did have a hard time when others were leaving. Poor little guy.

After church we decided to go out to eat. Ian was alseep before we got on the Broken Arrow Expressway. Charlie decided that he'd like Red Lobster today. We got there and got right in. Ian is not doing as well as he once did in restaurants. Not sure what's going on with that, but I'm sure we get through it. We were all stuff when we left there.

After Ian's nap this afternoon, I took a few pictures of the boys outside. I'll post them in a little bit. Charlie is a great father and Ian adores him. He lights up when Charlie walks in the room. Charlie...lights up when he sees Ian. I love watching the two of them together. I look forward to many other Father's Days with my two favorite boys in the world.

Happy Father's Day!!!!