I've never been great at keeping up a baby book. Instead, I write down my kid's milestones and cute sayings on our calendar. I save each year's calendar so that in years to come I can look back on a snapshot of what our life was like that year. A few weeks ago, I was looking at the calendar from 2005 and came across this gem.
Apparently, Lydia (who was 2 1/2 at the time) and I were discussing marriage.
"You need to marry someone like your Daddy," I told her.
"Okay." she replied. "I'll marry Jesus."
As Christians, our goal should be to be like Christ, but in the mind of my two year old daughter, Christ was like her daddy. If it is true that children form their perceptions of their Heavenly Father based on their relationships with their earthly fathers, then my children are blessed beyond measure to have Matt as their dad. I know that I am a better person because I am married to him! I am so thankful that my children have such a wonderful Dad to celebrate on Father's Day.
For those of you who are concerned about the timing of our Father's Day celebration, I know that Father's Day is actually next weekend. We are going to be out of town, so we decided to do our celebrating a week early!
Matt does a great job keeping our lawn up. He has lots of theories and strategies on how to keep the grass looking nice at all times. When the kids and I saw lawnmower cupcakes in a magazine, we knew they were perfect for Matt's Father's Day cake. I decided a layer cake would be easier than cupcakes, and Lydia and Nathan had fun making the little lawn mowers. We did manage to eat quite a few of the lawn mowers before they made it onto the cake!
How precious! This is an awesome tribute. We'll be celebrating Father's Day with a trip through the McDonald's drive thru on our way out of town, but I think Doug's so excited about the trip that it might be the best Father's Day gift we could give him! :-)
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