Alan is such a wonderful father. His love is tangible, it’s like a big blanket that surrounds you with warmth. Once someone with the sight said that to me, you are surrounded by love. And I feel that and can see it with Alan and Isabelle. She is surrounded by love.

Isabelle will never look back on her childhood unhappily. She’s a happy baby, well usually. Except for this weekend. I will write about that another time. This post is about Alan’s first Father’s Day present. So on to it.

Things didn’t go exactly as planned. I wrapped Alan’s present up in plain paper and then had the bright idea of stamping Isabelle’s handprints and footprints on it. Turns out that wasn’t such a great idea since Isabelle had no idea what I was doing. She wasn’t very cooperative. Ink got everywhere! On me, on her. I couldn’t get her still to get good prints. Most of the prints came out smeary but Alan loved it.

Then I gave the surprise away. I got Alan a poker chip set. Well the other day I found a poker chip on the floor. I picked it up and looked at it then looked confusedly at the wrapped present. By my reaction and questioning where the chip came from he figured out I had gotten him poker chips. Oh well. I’ll do better next year.

Oh and the picture above is all kinds of crazy. I know. It was after midnight, we had a rough day, and I must have been tired. You can’t even really see their faces but in the picture Isabelle’s chewing on the present. How cute is that? So here’s a better picture of daddy and baby: