Happy Father's Day! (belated)

You may have noticed that Bill/Reece aka "The Mav" is posting here much more frequently these days. He's got an amazing new phone that enables posting pictures and videos directly from the phone (no computer!). He can take a video and have it on the blog in the time it takes our small boy to eat a single broccoli floret. (of course, it can take the kid over 30 minutes ...).

It's been a bit of a rough year for the father-son duo. First, there was the chaos of living apart for awhile and moving. Then our "normal" (post graduate school) life brought the new routine which involves commuting, working outside the house, daycare, business travel. As expected, we all spend much less time together.

On the surface, E is very much a mama's boy. He's in a phase now in which he insists that I do pretty much everything; helping him into the car, brushing his teeth, ... The other day, at nap, Bill asked for a hug and E told him he only had one, and it was for Mommy. While I don't argue that E and I have a pretty good thing going, E is not actually anti-Daddy. Not at all.

One morning, Bill took E out to eat breakfast at Bojangles while I got some work done. For months afterward, E would point out Bojangles every time we drove by and tell me "that BO-jangles. Daddy and I eat there!"

One of the best way to get E to try something new to eat is to have Bill eat it. Don't offer it to Evan. Just let him watch Daddy eat it. More often than not, he'll ask for some and will eat/drink more than just a taste's worth. We've added eggs, english muffins, and grapefruit juice to his repertoire this way, to name a few. This does NOT work if I eat something E hasn't tried before.

I think the pictures probably tell the rest of the story a bit more eloquently. (My writing skills are a bit "dry" right now). E adores his Dad, and rightly so. He's a fantastic father to his 1.7 sons!