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Leslie, and Aaron, and Sami, did manage to make my first fathers day in *this* family a special one — probably the most special one I’ve had to date! We started off with a little expedition to the crafts fair that was going on this weekend so that Leslie and Aaron could get me a gift from there from Aaron and Sami that Leslie and Aaron had picked out together (after I had given them the ambiguous hint the previous day, that the *perfect* present could be found there.

Yup — they found it — a cool clock with a funny face (literally) made out of used computer parts — thus the clock face is a hard-drive disk made to look like a funny face. Attached is a body, which is a floppy disk — and then the “legs” are a two-part pendulum made out of a cut up circuit board. It combines my passions for faces/masks and computers — and is truly cool, besides. The fact that they were able to correctly identify that this is what I had in mind, merely from the clue that the “perfect gift is there” (somewhere in what was a huge crafts fair of about 150 Artisans) was really cool, too!

We all had a nice brunch at a local restaurant called Boscos — but I couldn’t have my requisite (for this kind of special brunch) mimosa because there is a local law against serving liquor in restaurants until noon on Sundays, because church goes until about then. Go figure the logic in that! Anyway the brunch was good company, anyway, and I got more presents — a cool cookbook describing a zillion ways to make interesting rice-based dishes — a book on moody vegetables to read with Sami for bedtime — and the promise of a TiVo system so that we can digitally watch all our time-shifted shows.

The rest of the day was mostly a quiet day at home — although we did venture out just before dinner to buy an entertainment saucer with lots of cool toys for Sami — since she is getting bored with the limited toys she has so far (limited only because she has been too small to do much with much of anything, I assure you! %-), and at her Dr. visit we were told her posture was so good she was ready for and could benefit from things like this where she can sit/stand supported and play. She loves it!

The other big adventure was trying to give Sami her first cereal. I don’t think Leslie has to worry about losing her baby just yet. So far Sami is tolerant of being spoon fed her gruel/cereal, but she isn’t enthusiastic, and I think she manages to force about 80% of what I give her (which isn’t much anyway) down her chin. So I suspect it will still be a couple of weeks before we can say she is really “eating”. But I am sure that the day isn’t so far off.

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