oh scott

how fun is this, that i have been hired by trinity to work on their challenge course. this is something that i have been excited about for some time now. to be able to facilitate groups as they work through difficulties such as communication, team work and trust. having my degree in outdoor leadership, this is in line with my heart and passions. therefore you can imagine my delight when the opportunity to be involved here arose. only one small problem, sophie. not too big though as scott assured me that he would be able to be flexible in his position and stay with her while i was on the course. he would be able to make up time at night and through the week. how great is this, we would both be growing our gifts and raising our daughter in our home where we want her. sweet.

my first day in the challenge course. i start at noon. scott comes home half an hour early so that we can switch off duties and communicate about what is expect by both of us. i have a list of times and foods and naps and what usually happens during the day with sophie, i review it with him and he seems to understand whole heartily. this is going to be great. i have lunch ready for the two of us so that come lunch time for sophie, scott only has to think and worry about getting her stuff ready. i am so on the ball. so, the two of us eat, i get ready, i am reassured that this is going to be a great day and off i go. so happy, big smile, heart beating, i am going to work...outside the home, yeah me!
i finish work and return to find a little girl and dad very happy together. yeah it all worked out just right. i proceed to make dinner and feed my family. but first i need to check in to make sure that what i am going to give sophie matches up with what she has had for the rest of the day...the conversation looked much like this...

"what did sophie get for lunch buds?" i ask scott.
"for snack i gave her..." he says.
"great" i reply, "but what about lunch buds?"
"ummm, for snack i gave her...." he insists.
"i heard you say that, but what about lunch, what did you feed sophie for lunch?"
"lunch?" he asks, "you fed her lunch"
"no, i fed you lunch" i say and look over at poor sophie whos cheeks are looking gaunt and her tiny frame is looking thiner than before, "you were supposed to feed your daughter lunch."
"oh, i knew i had read something about yogurt " said scott.
"are you serious, you didn't give sophie any lunch"
"hee hee hee" he said sheepishly.

great, nine months of being able to give my daughter lunch and the first time she is left alone with her dad, she misses out. i look at scott and ask if me working on the course is truly going to work out. he assures me that it was a mistake and it won't happen again. okay, i think, i will try this again. so the next day, off to work i go. so excited, so happy, big smile, heart jumping...a little nervous, double check, yup scott has lunch under control, he is feeding it to her as i leave, i know she is going to get her lunch, great. off i go.

i return...i check in, scott did you give sophie lunch, yup, lunch she got. scott did you give sophie her snack, yup, snack she got. great he did it, he really is the greatest dad there ever was. i am so proud of him, he looks tired but he is such a great dad. my heart is overflowing, i am able to fulfill a part of my dream by working, and loving sophie, and scott is really stepping up like no other husband ever would...he is just the best. i pick up sophie, i hold her, i love her....i notice she smells a little, i notice her diaper is awfully full....scott i ask, have you change sophie lately? a blank look comes on his face...scott, did you change sophie at all today? a small smile creeps across his face. i take my little girl to change her, her diaper is so full it is almost falling off her. it is as if he took her swimming and left the same diaper on...maybe that is what he did. oh scott i think, you make my world beautiful.

so the moral of the story.
my husband is beautiful, he is truly wonderful, but apparently he is like many others as the stories are all the same. so here is an ode to scott,

thank you scott for being such a great dad
you really are very very rad
perhaps you could not make us so sad
as you are really not that bad
just do the things that make us all glad.


we love you,
corinna and sophie