Our gift to Chris for father's day was a morning free to enjoy a leisurely game of golf with his buddies. I also threw in a box of golf balls and the boys made crafty cards. (One of the pluses to day care is that most of the holidays are taken care of with crafty handmade projects.) Griffin even made a hat for Chris, displaying Griffin's fingerprints all over the hat in bright rainbow hues. I love the hat even more when Griffin puts it on backwards and refuses to take it off.
After golf, we met up at the pool for lunch and some swimming. After a week without their Dad, the boys were in full on daddy mode, but Griffin may have outdaddied them all. Griffin refused to let Chris do or go anywhere without being in his arms. I was quite the third wheel.
As I played in the pool with Brennan and Aidan - challenging their friends to races around the pool - Brennan hugged me tight and whispered in my ear, "You are lots of fun Momma. I love you." He finished off his sweetness with a wet, chlorinated kiss on my cheek. Oh, the little love.
We went home for quick naps mid afternoon, only to wake the kiddies up to head over to my grandparent's house for dinner. The boys are like rock stars among the company of their adoring cousins. Patrick wowed them with his skateboard tricks off of the deck. Liam took Griffin for rides on his skateboard. Aidan and Brennan threw rock after rock with Nicole into the stream. My cousins Bridget and Casey even got Griffin to bust his groove and renamed the little dance, "the Griffin." (Later that evening, I heard Bridget asking her father to do the "Griffin" Dad! And then she illustrated the patented dance moves for which our little guy is slowly becoming famous.)
It was a perfect ending to a wonderful family day.
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