Father's Day Tribute

Well we happen to have a lot of awesome Dad's around here!  Mine is incredible and Todd's is great too!  And lets just say Gracie definately hit the jackpot with her Dad!  Let's see...for starters the last two nights he has spent sleeping on the ground with Gracie because the blow up mattress they've been sharing broke a leak.(hopefully it will be back in order tonight we tried our hand at fixing it last night) She will only sleep in her crib for a few hours at the beginning of the night and then wants to sleep with Dad in the extra room.  Yes I did agree to let her try sleeping between us, but apparently our awesome comfy bed doesn't cut it for her.  Or maybe she just wants Dad to herself!  I'm pretty sure that alone puts him pretty high on the Dad meter...and extremely high on the husband meter! 
Here are some pictures from our Sunday walk on Father's Day

Gracie and Dad

She's staring down the ball in a  neighbors yard, she wanted it SO bad!

Pulling apart the flower we picked

Feeding the ducks

Eating the ducks bread!  She still doesn't like bread...unless shes' supposed to be feeding it to the ducks!

He is so involved in everything that happens with her and is very protective of her.  I think he goes a little crazy on clinic days when he's at his rotations and doesn't get any type of decent update from me until it's all done and we're home, or he's home.  And as soon as he gets home, her face lights up and if he tries to escape her for a second to shower or change she is not happy!  He's the kind of Dad that actually likes to get down on the ground and play as much as she does...and that is how we got our Daddy's girl!  Most the time he's home is dedicated to being a great Dad!  He takes her outside to play and swing or chases her around the house.  Then of course he usually feeds her and offers her drinks as often as possible these days ( to keep her from being dehydrated), and yes he even changes her chemo diapers(something I don't think you could get him to do for anyone else) almost all the time he's home.  In fact Sunday-yes Father's Day I realized at the end of the day I hadn't changed a single diaper, and not a single complaint from him!  Although once I realized I felt a little guilty for slacking on Father's Day, but true to his nature he really truly didn't mind a bit.  There's a million more reasons why we're so lucky, but we'll leave it at that!   We are just so grateful to have such an awesome Dad and husband and such fabulous grandpa's for Gracie!