Dear Addie,
This weekend was all about Daddy as we celebrated another wonderful Father's Day with the best daddy ever - yours!
Now if I'm beng honest Mother's Day and Father's Day are actually two of my favorite days of the year (besides of course Christmas, Thanksgiving, Halloween...ok well let's just say they are at least in the top five.) There's always something to laugh about and so much love and appreciation in our parental cups that it runneth over. But I digress. Every year as we approach Father's Day, I encourage the same from y'all as to find a way to use your creativity to show Dad how much he is loved and y'all never disappoint with "art" generally being the theme of the gifts.
Let 2024 Father's Day begin! First up, Clara.
This year Clara, our resident visual artist, knowing Dad is going through what we jokingly call his "bird era" of life with his excessive bird-watching, feeding, and sound-identifying apps, painted him a beautiful picture of a Pileated Woodpecker that we saw on our property recently. I think it goes without saying he loved it and it will hang next to another bird painted in our dining room that just so happens to have an accent wall of bird wallpaper. Bird era yall, bird era. But I'm here for it and I love all of it too.
Next up was our resident performing artist Gabe, who performed and recorded a flowy aerial sling routine (with no death-defying drops that scare Dad) to one of his all-time favorite songs. It was gorgeous, bringing us all to tears at just 9 am.
Now last, but definitly not least, was your turn and I always try to help guide this but let's just say this took a turn quickly. With your love of bugs and your shared love of the outdoors with Dad I thought painting a ladybug stepping stone would be a cute idea... Key words here were stepping stone.
I set up your workstation with paint brushes, paint, and your stone. You leaned in dipping your brush in the first color of paint and my initial thoughts here were thinking wow this is going good, then you proceeded to paint your hands, face, including lips and teeth (it was non toxic) and shirt - completely disregarding the ladybug in front of you for the next 10 minutes. Was your gift body art Addie? Oye. Once you got through each paint color on your body you said "All done!" Where I then asked you if you could please paint the ladybug and with a few appeasing strokes doing so, you repeated "All done!" Ah yes, our minimalist artist at anything that's not painting one's body. Why do I feel like you'd be our tattoo-covered child if allowed? Dad obviously loved it and we all got a good laugh out of the process.
Addie, this weekend we celebrated the most hard-working, loving, and patient dad ever and he enjoyed every second of it.
Well done baby girl.
Love,
Mom
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