Father's Day

Tonight on the way to the grocery store K-Love was doing a special on fathers. It was so interesting to hear all the different psychologists' perspectives on the role dad's play in a child's life. There was one in particular who was speaking about how a father's relationship with his daughter affects her future relationships with men as well as her relationship with God. He said that if you had a loving father growing up you should feel blessed. I feel blessed... very blessed. I love my dad. He has always been someone I could count on to give me good advice and I have utilized him a lot over the years in that area!

I had really wanted to make today special for Marc. I knew that he would have to round at the hospital this morning but was hoping we would have most of the day with him. That unfortunately wasn't the case. Marc has worked SO much this weekend. He worked from 6am on Friday morning straight until 3pm on Saturday and then came home and slept to catch up from no sleep the night before. Then he worked today from 6am to 3pm. If you are counting, that is over 40 hours in a weekend which is a lot. He is worn out. Now he has a patient in labor at the hospital and will likely have to go in tonight to deliver her and then be back at the hospital tomorrow morning at 6am. So, I had to adjust his Father's Day a bit. Since he couldn't enjoy breakfast with us this morning I made him some of his favorite banana nut bread last night while he was sleeping and put it out for him to have this morning. I got this recipe several years ago from Southern Living and Marc REALLY likes this bread so I knew it would bring a smile to his face.

I made the one on the right without nuts so Eli could have some since we haven't introduced him to any nuts yet.

Once Marc got home he opened up his presents. Eli had made Marc something at school and then he opened up the gifts we bought. He got a mirror for his bike so he can see Eli when he is the bike trailer (our neighbors recently gave us their old one for free!) behind him and some new Nike pool sandals for our upcoming trip. I think he loved them all and Eli enjoyed helping him open everything up.

Eli gave Marc a bag of peanuts and a cute card made like a shirt that he worked on at school.

After such a long day we decided to do something easy for dinner that the whole family would enjoy so we headed to Pizza Hut. We have a really nice dine-in one by our house that is never very crowded. Eli wasn't in the best mood tonight (yes, he is sick again with fever and probably has another ear infection) so we were glad to find that we were the only ones in the restaurant. :)

Eli has another battle wound on his forehead. He hit the corner of one of his stackable blocks and.. well you can see who won. :)

Here is my 22 week picture! Getting big in the belly. :) Baby girl is moving a lot and her kicks are getting much stronger. I still think she is still breech because the kicks are really low. I bought her first two outfits this weekend which was really fun. I have ordered some fabric samples and plan on getting the nursery figured out in the next month!