seat stealing

garrett loves to steal people's seats and then laugh at them. i don't know where he gets it, but he is a stinker. this picture was taken because i had been lying on the couch and had gotten up and then he jumped up in my seat and laughed "ha ha" at me. so now it's just a game, he jumps in my seat and i lay down or sit down on him. as you can kind of see in this picture, he is a thumb sucker, but not just that, he also likes hair. when he is tired he will put his thumb in his mouth and then latch on to some hair and twirl it in his hands. it will be his or someones, it doesn't matter. i don't know if i have told you, but i love this little guy. he puts a smile on my face. i know that he is human and that he is going to make mistakes in life (much like his old man) but right now, he's great. i wish that we could keep them at this age. i know what is coming. i know that when he grows up he's going to do something that is going to hurt my feelings. he is going to do something to get himself hurt. he is going to do something that is going to hurt someone else. garrett, even though you do those things, there is one thing that i want you to know. i love you no matter what. God has placed you in my care, and there are a lot of things that you will do that will make you think that i don't love you, but i want you to know that i'll always love you no matter what it is.
there may be times that i let you down, that i do something that hurts you, and i want you to know that if i let you down i am sorry. if i hurt you i am sorry. i still love you and i always will. God please protect my little man and help me be the daddy that You want me to be. help me to love and protect him and to show him the path that You want him to take. thank you so much for my son, and i pray that i will be the daddy that will love and protect him forever. Amen

future hippie

i just thought that i would share one of my favorite pictures with you. i think that in the future he will make a wonderful drummer in a band or may be he will just be a cross dresser. anyway, this is garrett, making us laugh and loving it. like i said, he will do anything for a laugh. i love this little guy. God bless you all!!!

i love this little guy

i love my boy. he is the funniest little man ever. everyday when i come home he just screams, "DADEM, DADEM, DADEM!" don't ask me where he got that, but that is how he says daddy. i love this little guy. he loves to climb, he loves to run, he like to tackle girls. i know that he is going to give me problems in the future, but he is the funniest little buggard ever. i think that i'll keep him.
i have been meaning to post some more pictures of him, but the internet is down and for some reason, i haven't been the best of fathers and haven't been taking many pictures of either of our kids. well i just thought that i would let you know that we haven't fallen off the face of the earth. God bless my little man and God bless all of you that read this journal for my son. i hope it brings something to your life, i know it does to mine.

my son

i just wanted to tell you a little about my boy. he is 1 and a half and the funniest little guy ever. he is a cut up and will do anything for a laugh, even if it will cause him injury. i love this little guy and that is why i am starting this blog. i was lying in bed the other morning and he was walking around the room and he came across a couple of journals. one of those journals was one that we got when my wife and i got married. we were supposed to journal about what is going on in our lives so that we could look back and remember the times. the other journal was one given to us when olivia (our oldest) was born. we were supposed to journal in it and tell her what she is doing. as i watched him looking at these i got sad that he didn't have anything like that so i decided to write this blog. he is a good boy and well deserving of just a little work of writing, (something that i am not fond of). i hope that i can share with you the wonderful things that my son means to me, and what he teaches me. thanks for being my son!