Daddy Day

A quick follow-up to yesterday's post (with a full camp review at the end of the week): Issa loved camp and she is still Issa at home! My heart sings.

Now as promised....a recap of Father's Day around our house.

Since it is a holiday, you know we celebrated full throttle! Issa and I had been plotting for weeks; we didn't tell Evan until Friday, and parts of the day were a complete surprise to him, too. You see, our little man sings like a canary!

I took the kids shopping Friday so they could each choose one small gift just from them. Issa and I were really hoping Evan could keep the secret for two days; he made it about 40 minutes: "Daddy, my got you a hammer!" He did get daddy a hammer--a two and a half pound sledge hammer. Please visualize him carrying that beast through the store because he refused to let me put it in the cart. Issa chose a nail bag to hold said hammer. That did manage to stay a secret.

Sunday morning, Issa woke Evan and I up at o'dark thirty to start the celebrating. The kids wrapped their own gifts:

 Yes, friends, that is Spiderman paper and painter's tape.

I loved watching Evan try to wrangle his gift:

 There was also the requisite pile of homemade cards and painted rocks:

 The bag of pebbles was a placeholder for the Pebble watch that we ordered for Daddy; the real thing should arrive in September. (This was most definitely news to Evan.)

We then started the caravan upstairs. Issa, Baboo, and her gift:

 Evan, Booboo, and his gift:

 Me carrying the aforementioned stack and French toast with sausage and coffee:

Daddy did a great job pretending he had slept through all the commotion. We all enjoyed breakfast in bed, and then we enjoyed a very low-key day. Daddy got a high quality nap and some even better quality time with each child individually. We made a special dinner of steaks and twice baked potatoes. I also made marscapone and fig stuffed phyllo pouches as an appetizer. Yeah...they rocked.

All in all, I think it was exactly what Daddy was hoping for, and he was, and is, definitely well-celebrated and well-loved.