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
this morning i was asked by scott...who was standing behind me...did i want to know what he was going to be for halloween. he then handed me his grade twelve student card (who has those anymore), regardless, for the man of many costumes, he has decided to be scott from grade twelve this year for halloween. oh dear.
first off, let me say that growing up, going on any kind of vacation was rather painful, not because we didn't enjoy each other, but because it was overwhelmingly stressful...that and the fact that my sister brought her whole library with her when all i wanted to do was play car games. she had her nose either in a book or in her journal as she documented the fact that we had just crossed shoe creek number 15.
so seattle it was and there was no agenda, just going to go and enjoy our family. ps, i don't work well with no agenda and so on pike street after walking through the market i broke down...needing to know where we were going and what exactly we were going to do that day i tired my best to communicate with scott in a reasonable manner that i just needed to know what he wanted to do and where we were going. his response didn't help as he simply said, wherever bud, lets just walk. he didn't seem to understand that i was not coping well with just walking, i can walk but i need to know where we are walking to....poor scott, he put his arms around me and said softly, buds, lets just enjoy our day outside and walk, if we find something we can do it, if we want to go someplace we can go...okay, i trust him, i trust that he is not going to be disappointed with our day, i trust that he is not going to be upset with me at the end of it...so we walk.
we walked through pike street market and watched the fish guys, we pushed our way through the busy people who were stopping for flowers and fresh produce, we made our way to shops and bought a few treasures, we shared a tea on the way. we headed for the space needle and shared our thoughts...but then...oh then, my most beautiful husband found the si fi museum...oh my beautiful husband. understanding that we were trying to be wise with our money, scott shared his heart with me...cor, it's 16 dollars per person to go on the space needle or 16 dollars per person to go to the museum, i would really like to go to the museum...
...as if he didn't have the biggest smile on his face ever!
we had a great time.
walking, holding hands, spending moments together.
next, some good times in the bath tub with my fun friend charlee, there were so many toys..but we both wanted the star
a walk in the leaves with mom and dad (in my carriage outfit from nana)
and finally, some pictures of the pumpkin patch that mom, dad, nana and i went to on nana's birthday.
this is mom scolding the goat cause it wasn't very nice to the other one...she was saying something about being kind to others and stuff...
pumpkin good times with my family...crazy as they are.
i also got to have dinner with my grandma and auntie chelsea and uncle scotty, i had lots of fun at their house. grandma walked around and around and around with me until her back hurt and chelsea made the best caramel apples ever.
fall is my favorite time of year.
today sophie and i went exploring in the trails to look at and enjoy the fall time. we looked at the leaves and talked about their colors. we saw our breath on the air. we smelt the fragrance of rain and even dreamed of jumping in puddles together one day soon. that's what i did today.
