Father's day!

I love father's day! I love making Thomas feel special and letting him know what a wonderful father he is. I also just love days that we spend as a family, just the 3 of us. Sunday was a wonderful day. I made Thomas and Eli a special breakfast of chocolate chip pancakes and sausage, potato hash. Then we let Eli play around and watch Veggie tales while we got ready for church. Bruce gave a wonderful father's day sermon on the prodigal son and used that father as an example of how to be a father. After church we went to America's for a father's day brunch. America's is Thomas' favorite restaurant and the brunch was wonderful. Eli loved it, he had a lunch of pancake and watermelon and was entertaining out waitress with all of his talking. It is always lovely when you get up to go through the buffet and you hear yelled across the restaurant "Mama, Mama, Mama!" After we all got our fill of the buffet, dessert and Eli was totally covered in it we decided to go home for naps.

I put Eli to bed and Thomas and I were about to take a nap too when Thomas heard Eli crying and decided to go check on him since he doesn't normally do that before falling asleep. Good thing Thomas went to check on him because Eli had gotten his leg stuck between the bars of the crib! After Thomas got him unstuck and we got Eli calmed down (which didn't take long, as soon as he saw the vacuum he stopped crying, Eli is so in love with the vacuum now!), he went down for his nap and I shortly after fell asleep too. Thomas was now wide awake so no nap for him!

After naps we played around the house. Thomas has a new "game' he plays with Eli. They sit at the pool table and Thomas lets Eli roll the ball into the corner pocket and watches it as it appears in the ball return, they do this over and over again. Eli thinks it is hilarious to watch the ball reappear. When you are downstairs listening to this you think the ceiling is going to come crashing down on you! Since there was no way I was going to get anymore rest with all that noise I decided to go up and play with my boys. We all played army men together. Well, Thomas and I would try to set them up before Eli would knock them all down! After playing for a while we were all hungry and decided to go get burgers at 3Bs which is just down the road a ways. They were pretty good burgers and tots. Eli loved the car video game they had there. He is obsessed with cars, trucks and trains right now. We let him play on the car while we waited for food and he came willing to eat when the food came. This place is a nonsmoking, family friendly sports bar so there were tvs everywhere and since the Astros had finished playing earlier all that was on was golf. Eli ate his dinner while intently watching golf! After Eli was done eating he wanted to go play on the car again which was fine since we were the only ones on that side of the restaurant anyways. The only problem is that when we were ready to go Eli did not want to stop playing on the car. He cried, "car, car, car" all the way to the car.

After we got home Eli had just enough time to watch Diego and get a bath (he still does not like bubble baths) before bed. Through the whole day I only remembered to get on picture of our wonderful father's day and that was at the end of the day when Eli and Thomas were watching Diego together.