Pouring My Art Out

Sitting around… babysitting, I mean…

Posted on February 28, 2017 by pouringmyartout

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I am watching little Olivia again today. She is snoring on the couch beside me as I type this. We went back to Balboa Park, in San Diego, again.

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Her favorite part of the park, it turns out, was pretending to eat at a Parisian cafe. I took her back to this particular park, because last week when we were there, she was really upset that there were too many kids climbing on the dragon statue, and she didn’t get a turn. So that is the first place we went.

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There were no kids on it.

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It was the perfect time.

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She didn’t want to have anything to do with that stupid dragon.

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But the day was not a total loss. I met this little guy.

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And we went into the botanical pavilion full of beautiful orchids… which frankly bored the crap out of Olivia…

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But I did make her wait patiently in the stroller while I took orchid pictures… because patience is a virtue. Just wait… that is only the outside. The flowers are going to blow you away!

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This little girl is getting married…

Posted on February 28, 2017 by pouringmyartout

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I know, she doesn’t look like that anymore. But that is the way I remember her, back when I was a stay-at-home dad… before that was a thing… and the other dads made fun of me. I didn’t care. I was there for all the important stuff.

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Now she is all grown up.

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And she has style and grace and she is tough and smart. And maybe that is partly because I was there for all the important stuff.

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And she is marrying a great guy. Everybody loved the wedding shower, except maybe our dog, who, as you can see, was stuck out in the backyard for most of it. Well, all the guys were sent away too, dog, so don’t feel too bad.

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It was a weekend filled with love.

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And we stuck Jessica’s fake eyelashes on Big Johnny, so… uh… yeah, that was fun.

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Upon reflection… (because ‘wet dreams’ would just be tacky) part 64 …

Posted on February 27, 2017 by pouringmyartout

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Yeah, you will never guess what city that is.

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The wedding shower…

Posted on February 27, 2017 by pouringmyartout

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Turns out that wedding showers involve drinking…

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Fancy drinking. Most of these pictures were taken by Mollie, our 17-year-old… because, being a man, I wasn’t allowed to be at the wedding shower.

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My wife went all out. That is a strawberry/mango mimosa… oh, yeah.

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She also made macaroons… from scratch…

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And I already mentioned the flowers she made by dying coffee filters with food coloring, right?

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That took her a week.

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The mixer is sort of an inside joke. We have been planning on giving Jessica a good mixer for her wedding since she was like a teenager.

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Upon reflection… (because ‘wet dreams’ would just be tacky) part 63 …

Posted on February 27, 2017 by pouringmyartout

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Sometimes, art is all about finding a new angle, a new perspective.

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My godson loves me… wait… where did my butt go???

Posted on February 26, 2017 by pouringmyartout

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Well, I was going to start this post with some sappy comment about how magical it is when a kid spontaneously grabs your hand because they love you… but then, I nabbed this picture off Big Johnny’s Facebook feed, and saw what I look like from behind now… which is basically behindless… I mean, my family have been telling me I don’t have a butt anymore, but I didn’t believe them… I was sitting on something…

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Anyway, while the wedding shower for my older daughter was going on at the house, us menfolk had to vacate the premises. We took Willie to the park… yes, the same one I took little Olivia to last week. Good eye!

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When you are a dad, you end up eating a lot of invisible food… and cakes made out of sand. Big Johnny is a good dad.

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William, who is now four-and-a-half, is quite a character.

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He was just running around with his sweater pulled over his head. Johnny and I were making ‘Cornholio’ jokes… (if you never saw Beavis and Butthead, don’t worry about it)

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