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Gosh balls and 'egos...

As she approaches two Katie has some definite ideas about activities that are daddy activities. Those activities include bike rides, looking at motorcycle pictures, hugs & kisses, 'egos, and gosh balls. Tonight we played both 'egos and gosh balls.

You might be asking what 'egos are... The correct pronunciation of 'egos is Legos. My younger brother left Katie and I a very large tub of legos that is the sum of all the legos he and I owned as a child. Katie and I now get together after dinner some nights and build things and play. She seems to really really look forward to this as some days she starts asking me at lunch and today she asked me at 8am when I was leaving for work. So far we built a house, a boat, a truck, and Katie's castle. I've also put together a few small cars for her to play with and take apart. Her record is playing with legos with me for 1 1/2 hours. That's a long time to do any one thing when you are talking about a kid not quite two.

Gosh balls is Katie's way of saying golf balls. Since my father has surrendered a large bulk of his weekends to golf not unlike my grandfather, I have started practicing in the back yard again (which I haven't done since I was 12 when my grandfather was grooming me to be a golf champion). As I approach 30 I realize that if I don't practice now when I hit the age of golf where all men in my family seem to be consumed by the game I will be woefully under prepared. Plus it is great stress relief to hit golf balls. To do this I use my dads clubs and some plastic whiffle balls that are the size of golf balls but plastic and with the whiffle ball holes rather then golf ball dimples. What Katie likes to do is stand in the yard and "catch" them in her bucket. I hit golf balls in her direction and she picks them up and puts them in the bucket. It started out one day as kind of a joke in the front yard with my father and I hitting the plastic golf balls into the drive way. Katie wanted to play and since she had her bicycle helmet on we let her pickup the balls in the drive way while we hit the balls. The next day when I got home from work she ran up to me asking for gosh balls! gosh balls! A new family tradition was born.

Tonight, Tonya went out for some non-Katie time, so Katie and I had the evening to ourselves. We started off eating dinner. We then went out side for some gosh balls at her request until it got dark. Then we went upstairs to play 'egos until it was time to get ready for bed. It was a nice evening basically for the two of us. For the first time in a while she went to bed very quickly and stayed asleep. We had a good night.