Sox for Fathers Day

So if you're reading this, and you aren't Australian, you may not know this but today is Fathers Day in Australia. In true Fathers Day fashion, my little Hayley bought me Socks... or more correctly "Blue Sox".

The Sydney Blue Sox ABL team had a Fathers Day promotion, where you could get a Blue Sox Membership, which came with some Blue Sox tickets, some offcial Blue Socks, as worn as part of the Blue Sox uniform, and includes discounts all season, a New Era baseball cap, a coffee mug, baseball bat, and lanyard. So I got "Sox" for Fathers Day.

Hayley also decorated a lovely card for me, which I get to put on my desk at work.

For lunch, we had a picnic with my family in a little park at West Gosford/Point Clare, which is next to a creek. Hayley and I fed the ducks with the cousins, and when the ducks had had their fill, we fed a school of whiting fish. Hayley had some cuddles with Poppy and wished him Happy Poppy's Day, then we took her home for her nap.

I mowed the lawn and Mel made Hayley and I some scones, which were in the shape of the sign language symbol for "I Love You".

And now, as I write this, Hayley is wrestling me.

So that's my father's day. How was yours?

Hayley's Firsts Sporting Events

My general thinking when I became a father was that I wanted to enjoy my time with my daughter, Hayley, sharing with her the things I enjoy, before she grows up and wants to do her own thing. Or maybe, she was just my excuse to go watch sports. Either way, from the moment I thought she was old enough to apprecite it (Okay, so she wasn't old enough to appreciate it, but she was old enough to look at the camera, which is all you really need right?) I started taking her to see some of the sports I love.

There was her first soccer game, where we took her to see the local Central Coast Mariners play in the A-League.

 

There was her first basketball game, when we had near-baseline tickets to see the Australian Boomers beat New Zealand in the Olympic Qualifiers.

 

My personal favourite was her first baseball game, when we took her to see the Sydney Blue Sox take on the Brisbane Bandits in the ABL. This one was very unsettling for her Mama, who had visions of flyballs hitting us, but she was very safe and protected, and I just know she loved every minute!

 

She's yet to see her first live Rugby League, although we do enjoy watching Sunday Afternoon Footy on Channel 9, while we play blocks (okay, so I play blocks, but she has fun knocking down my quickly built creations).

 

 

I do enjoy sharing the view from the cheap seats with my girl. And I do look forward to a day when she will take me to all the things she likes to do. But until that day, I will continue to drag her and her mama along to the baseball, and hope and pray that she grows to appreciate it... what? a guy can dream!