Thursday, May 28, 2009

When fathers wax sentimental about their "children"

On Hadley's birthday, she slept late (my gift) and I made her favorite breakfast: oatmeal cookie pancakes (her gift).


As we were piling into the car afterward to go to Grandma's, Jamie commented,

"I just want to warn you about something."

"Oh no. What?"

"I may be a little emotional today."

"Why?"

"Wellllllll, first my little girl is turning five."

"Yeah right, whatever. What's the real reason?"

"My back-up pumpkin plant is running into my main one. I will have to kill it today."

17 Comments:

Terra said...

those pumpkins! Just as important as his "little pumpkin" - cracks me up. Hopw the main one does well...

Coordination Queen said...

LOL! Such a boy.

Lavender Luz said...

WHEN am I going to learn to click over to you ONLY when there is no coffee in my mouth!?

Laura Moffitt said...

Oh man I don't know what I was expecting him to say but that definetly was not it.

Paige said...

That IS an emotional thing.

diana said...

awww... poor jamie. something we can all relate too, right? =)

Head Nurse or Patient- you be the judge said...

Oh Good Gravy! Nice try at a save by mentioning the daughter though.

Freckle Face Girl said...

My mom has that same plate. :)

Beeeeeeee said...

LOL - it looks like some kind of alien cam in your pumpkin patch.

Rosey Pollen said...

After you told me about your husband's blog dedicated to the "great pumpkin",
this doesn't surprise me. Really funny, I can relate totally. Like the song says, "you gotta be cruel to be kind" ( I am referring to thinning here.)

Richelle said...

At least he mentioned your daughter first. :)

Bonnie said...

OHHHHHH! You guys crack me up!

Gina (Mannyed) said...

sooo....that's your backyard, eh.

:)

Amber said...

See our house on the other side of the fence with the playset? That is our house. Our neighbor has insanely/generously let Jamie grow pumpkins on his big lot.

mamabirdsblog said...

Wow. There better be LOTS of pumpkin pie in this in the end for your neighbor!

Beth Partin said...

The truth is out!

By the way, that is quite the setup there. I guess the row covers help the pumpkins grow so big.

chellie said...

Hilarious. I don't ever look at pumpkins anymore without thinking of Jamie.