A Good Daddy....

As most of you know one of Parker's favorite things about summer is swimming!!! Everyday he asks if we can swim yet, and he usually resorts to swimming in the bath tub. Today we were hoping it would be warm enough. We checked the temp. of the water and it was still to cold. Our neighbors have a lovely swimming pool and they regularly invite us over. We have a wonderful arrangement when they go out of town we water their plants and feed their fish and swim. We are very fortunate e to have such nice, caring, and fun neighbors). So we decided we would go and buy a pool and hopefully Parker could swim later in the afternoon. He was so excited, it was a very loud & energetic trip to target. Once we got home Daddy started airing up the pool and the agreement was that Parker would lay down and rest while Daddy set the pool up then when he woke up the pool would be ready. I was in the other room and Casey walked in and asked where Parker was. We started looking and he was laying in his bed as wide eyed as possible. I asked him what he was doing and he explained that he needed to "take a rest so his pool would be ready and he could swim when he wakes up". A very precious moment. Well, it did take a little while but he did fall asleep ALL BY HIMSELF. So while he was sleeping Casey and I began the task of warming the water in the pool. We filled 5 gallon tubs with hot water.
I went to the kitchen and Casey went to our bathroom and we made trips back and forth to the pool. While this was taking place we also boiled hot water on the stove and on the burner on the grill outside. So for over an hour we made probably 50 trips to the pool trying to warm the water so Parker could swim when he woke up. The only request Casey had was that we turn the game on every TV so he could watch a little as he carried water to the pool. So every TV (inside & outside) was on the game. In between trips I looked at Casey and told him what a good Daddy he was. Not many dads would spend over an hour during the NBA finals game 7 transporting hot water in tubs and pots outside to a pool just to warm the water so their kids could swim. Well, Parker woke up and we all had a wonderful afternoon outside. Parker and Daddy enjoyed swimming. Paxson and I spent a lot of time under the umbrella (poor little guy he is so fair skinned). It was a great afternoon! Then to top of our day we grilled out for dinner and watched Superman (during another game....Casey is recording it we will watch it later this evening). It is to easy to forget how blessed I am. I get so busy in daily routines and adventures I sometimes forget to let Casey know how proud I am of him as a father and how much I love him. Today was a great opportunity to remind him how wonderful he is!



He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord.
Proverbs 18:22

How great is the love the Father has lavished on us that we should be called children of God. 1 John 3:1