WTxMommy is out of town. She flew to Austin on the 9th for 2 science teacher seminars and she presented at one of them! Today, she flew to Houston, where she will spend a week at NASA. She always comes back with the coolest pictures & stuff on her science teacher trips. (She was named Texas Middle School Science teacher of the Year in 2005!) So I am single-parenting 'til WTxMommy gets home on the 18th - yeah, that's ten full days she's gone! So here are some pix from today. We went to Mass first (I'm the fat, gray-haired old dude standing next to her in front of the altar) I took her to eat at a Chinese buffet (she loves lo mein) and then took a bunch of pictures of her in the gardens. We were overcast today, so the light was perfect:
Smashing photographs of your daughter WT. Doesn't she look lovely in the garden with the backdrop of your flowers? You two are going to have so much fun together over the next few days I'm sure. "I'm the fat, gray-haired old dude standing next to her in front of the altar." Hey that's no way to talk about yourself I think you're quite a hunk myself. :-D
Well, thanks, eileen, for saying I still qualify as a hunk. The question is, a hunk of what? Lard? Butter?
Actually, she has my mother's features, my mother-in-law's coloration and my father's curly hair. Her hair is long now, so it doesn't curl quite so much, but when it's short we get these big ol' curls. My dad had curly hair as a kid. My wife & I have always had straight hair. But the facial structure of my daughter is my mom's. Unfortunately, my mom passed away from a cerebral aneurysm in 2001 at age 65. Also sadly, my mother-in-law passed away after a fight with cholangiocarcinoma in 1999 at age 73. Sometimes, my daughter will hold her head just so, or I'll take a picture of her in a particular pose and it'll remind me of a picture of my mom when she was a little girl. And, I know I'm biased here, but my mother was extremely beautiful! Although I am pleased that my daughter is pretty and may turn out to be pretty as a young lady & an adult, I am NOT looking forward to boys coming over, or calling her. My plan is to buy a firearm and conveniently be cleaning it whenever any suitor comes over. I will point out to them, that because of my job (prosecutor), I know lots of cops and they will help me kill any boy, who attempts to dishonor my daughter. Of course, I do not plan to kill anybody, but I'd love for them to get the impression, I would kill them and have help in covering it up! :-D
She is vey pretty and that should scare them away real well WTxDaddy. I scared the guys away as Heather's dad was a Teddy Bear and made friends with them all.
My son let's my 6yr old grand-daughter order steak and crab legs just so no boy will ever be able to afford to take her out someday. Those are super sweet pictures.
Well, I suppose the best thing would be for the guys to be afraid of my daughter herself! My youngest sister-in-law got kissed on the bus on the way to school at age 5 and she punched the boy in the face! Also, she was playing in the community pool with an inflatable alligator, when some boy tried to take it away from her. She took the floatie device off herself & beat the boy over the head with it. I would like my daughter to be a little bit like this, so the boys would know, first they'd have to deal with my daughter, then they'd get to deal with me. When she was 3, I was taking her to her dance class & she leaned against the side of the truck & said, "Daddy, I got it bad." I asked why. She said, "Anthony kissed me." I did not know who Anthony was - turns out, he was a boy in her pre-school. I then asked, "Where did he kiss you?". She answered - all too evasively, if you ask me - "At school." I then asked, "No! Where on your body!?" "She answered, "The lips". I then went into a lecture about not letting boys kiss her at all, much less on the lips! I called my wife on the cell phone & she gave Her Royal Highness a lecture too. Later that night, we watched the Charlie Brown Halloween special. I pointed out to HRH, that she needs to be like Sally Brown, who balled up her fist & told Linus in the pumpkin patch, "If you try to hold my hand, I'll slug you!" My brother-in-law tried to teach her to ward off boys' advances by teaching her to say "Absolutely not!", but it came oout "Absolooply not!" I talked to her about responsibility - a new word. She tried it: "usponsibiluppy". I just had to laugh! And I miss those days already and she's only 5! She can tell people, she wants to be a paleontologist when she grows up, or a "betanarian", and then there's the astronaut & ballerina careers she's planning too! Joann, your son is brilliant! He should write a book! But I've also heard, when you buy your daughter a car, buy something sturdy & strong & safe, but not new. When her husband buys her a car later, you don't want her thinking, or saying, "But Daddy bought me a nice car!" I will try to find a tank from the 1960's for her to drive. Big ol' hunk o' metal that'll withstand impact from any more modern contraptions!
Your little princess looks sweet with the lovely garden as the backdrop. Our children is really our pride and joy and I can see by the way you write and the piccies that it is the same for you. :-D
LOL LOVE the stories, WTxDaddy! The part about hoping the guys be afraid of her....My little princess is 19. She carries a life time hunting and fishing licience. Shot her first deer at 13. I think the guys are a little intimidated :-D Wish I could get a pic posted, jr year prom... in her dress... holding her Daddy's 45
Heather has a 7th KYU in Karate from Shihan Osamu Ozawa Shotakon Karate.She was doing really good on her way to a black belt and her instructor dropped her and hurt her back and hip.She still can use it.
WTD I believe you have a model in the making. Your daughter is precious. And it is obvious she is a Daddy's girl. Oh by the way... instead of calling you WTD...should we call you ... Mr. Prosecutor??
