Gil Yeung: June 11, 2012

Father's day came early this year. Kinda. It was father/daughter weekend with June out of town. I know I spent 9 months with Rhys every day last year but it was different. Being sick gave me a different mindset but I don't ever want to forget how precious these moments with my young daughter is. I am in no position to give any advice to any father out there- but I would recommend every dad to send their wives away for a few days vacation and hang out with your kid one on one. Totally different. It's almost like without June, my parental spidey senses needed to be heightened. I didn't have my wife to shoulder some of the burden. I became more attentive, slept earlier knowing I had to watch her the next day. I carried around snacks, and water and extra clothes and shoes. I'm sure these are things moms do regularly and any mother reading this is going, pffffhhh, watchu want a cookie gil, for taking care of your kid? thats what you suppose to do! Noted but it still was a lot of fun. It did have it's moments. I realize that when i am going out alone with Rhys- I drink less water because I don't want to pee. Maybe this is just father's with daughters. But if i have to pee, i have to find a private bathroom(pref starbucks.) I make rhys stand in the corner so she can't see me go #1. I can't bring her into the guys and have her stare at a bunch of men in front of urinals. Just me? Anyone? Bueller? But I digress. I just wanted to jot down some memories in case i forget in my old age.

Friday- got to pick her up from preschool- she was pretty stoked. All the kids stay after school and play in the playground. Rhys set up a picnic with her friends. I thought I would be smart and bring her snacks. I made the mistake of bringing her a whole box of crackers. So of course she shared with her friends- that's cool. What's not cool is the chubby kid that grabbed about 6 handfuls and 2 minutes later, the box was empty. I couldn't even get mad at him- cuz that probably used to be me ( i was the chubby kid that ate other people's food)

We then went to costco and then hung out at Andis' house for dinner. Rhys ran around Alden for a few hours and we went home. Tired and happy.

Saturday- pancake breakfast- she even knows its Uncle Stevo's recipe from scratch. I am getting good at making shapes of various animals with the batter. Maybe start my own restaurant chain. I will call it Panshapes and Bacon.

12:00- Dance class- or as I call it, Shawshank- I cannot believe what it costs to let our kid dance. I can teach her all that jazz at home with LMFAO pounding in the background. For free!

Spent the afternoon cleaning the house with her helping by not messing it up as I cleaned. Then her friend Maddie came over to play- Maddie and RHys 6 days apart and are great playmates. THey ran around in the playground and then ran around in the house pretending that Maddie's baby brother Conner was a monster. After a full dinner of Udon (her favorite). It was off to bed. Slept to 7:30 and both sat and sun morning comes into our room and goes , "where's momma? In kelowna? I miss her"

Sunday-

Off to church, then June's mom's house for Kimpap (korean sushi) and then off to pick up her school mate and to class birthday party- hawaiian theme. It was good, but I didnt know anyone except for the parents of the birthday girl. So made some new friends and tried to figure out who was related to whom. Big family.

After party- dropped RHys off at my mom's to spend the night. Came home and took a nap, made dinner and did some laundry.

Phew. TIme for bed. Rhys and Gil's weekend adventure is done. Now back to work.

Some photos to highlight the weekend: