Happy Daddy Day!

Happy Daddy Day - to all our daddy-readers, but especially to our fathers - Richard and Doug! This morning I was attempting to teach Austin to say "Happy Daddy Day" (since father is not really a word he knows). But every time I said, "Say happy" Austin would respond "birthday!". He never would say Happy Daddy Day, but said Happy Birthday instead. But it was cute and at least he knew (well, not really sure what he actually understands) it was something to celebrate. We cooked a special breakfast for Chris, went to church, went to TGIFridays for lunch with some of our other playgroup friends and had a good afternoon at home.

Chris and Austin spent some time wrestling on the floor. Austin discovered it is fun to straddle Daddy's back and ride like a horse. He wanted to do that over and over again. Here are some fun Daddy-son pictures from the day.






I was thinking today about the ways Austin takes after Chris, so i thought today would be an appropriate day to list them. Here goes:

They have big heads and lots of curly hair.

Left-handed (well, I can't say 100%, but Austin seems to prefer left over right)

Love music. It is kind of a joke in the family that we cannot eat without Chris first putting music on. Well, either Austin has picked up on this or just loves music that much himself, but now if Chris is not home when we eat a meal he says "dance, dance" (which means- I want to listen to music). In fact, another new word of his is "Ipod". I mean, how many 19 month-olds know the word Ipod? Tonight he saw the speakers (without the ipod) and walked around the house saying "ipod go? ipod go?" ( as in where did the ipod go?) until Chris found it and played some music.

Language ability (well Chris is obviously good at languages. But, I was an early talker and so is Austin.) But Austin has started saying more Chinese words- often he knows the English and Chinese. Every time he sees a picture of an elephant now, he says "elephant, da xiang" and for pig "pig, zhu". For fish it is reversed "Yu fish (this one he says as one word)". Either way, his ability to communicate continues to amaze me.

Ok, well that ends our Daddy Day.