{"id":217,"date":"2009-03-24T11:42:15","date_gmt":"2009-03-24T17:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dustykennedy.com\/?p=217"},"modified":"2009-03-24T12:38:31","modified_gmt":"2009-03-24T18:38:31","slug":"my-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dustykennedy.com\/my-daughter\/","title":{"rendered":"My Daughter"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"tiny-dancer\"Each day, I am amazed.\u00a0 I am amazed that such a wonderful being can share the same genetic make up as me.\u00a0 Seriously, my daughter is awesome!\u00a0 I’m blown away by some of the stuff that she says and some of the things she does.<\/p>\n

Just the other day, she woke up pretty early and went to ask her mother if she could watch Dora.\u00a0 (That’s Dora the Explorer to all of you uninformed.)\u00a0 Well, Amy’s pregancy this go around has been anything but pleasant.\u00a0 So, Amy (while in bed trying to ease the nausea) says, “You know how to use the Xbox, you can watch whatever.\u00a0 But, you’ll have to hook it up.”\u00a0 She said this thinking that my 3 year old daughter would not be able to hook up the Xbox and resort to going to the play room and playing with puzzles and toys until mommy could kick the pukiness.\u00a0 (Oh yeah, it’s a word.\u00a0 Google it.)<\/p>\n

Let me also explain a little about the Xbox in question.\u00a0 You may be thinking, how can you watch Dora on the Xbox.\u00a0 Well, I’m a tinker-er.\u00a0 I like to experiment.\u00a0 When my Xbox got so old that I didn’t really play it that much anymore, and it was way past warranty consideration, I modded it and put Xbox Media Center on it.\u00a0 So, basically, anything I download can be streamed to my Xbox, making it awesome for storing and playing hours and hours of Dora, Deigo, Little Einsteins, (seriously, I could go on, but I won’t).\u00a0 My wife has a hard time operating it sometimes.\u00a0 Not that it’s complex, just that you have to know where to go once running it to pull the files you want.<\/p>\n

Back to the other day.\u00a0 So, Iliana leaves the bedroom and Amy thinks, “Okay, that should give me some time.”\u00a0 Next thing Amy knows, she hears the TV on.\u00a0 She goes in there and sees that my daughter, my pride and joy, has unhooked the Wii from the TV and plugged in the AV cables for the Xbox, turned on the TV and Xbox, and properly navigated to the Family Video section and was watching one of her favorite types of videos:\u00a0 Iliana.\u00a0 That’s right, my 3 year old daughter can do what a lot of adults can’t do; properly hook up a piece of Audio\/Video equipment.\u00a0 Am I proud?\u00a0 Dang Skippy, I’m proud.\u00a0 Am I over-reacting?\u00a0 Probably, but let me see your kid figure out how to do that on his\/her own.\u00a0 My kid is a genius!\u00a0 (Dear God, please don’t let this be the pinnacle of her success.)<\/p>\n

And just last night, we were laying in bed during story time and she asked a pretty thought provoking question.\u00a0 Iliana likes “Princess Joscelyn” stories for bedtime.\u00a0 “Princess Joscelyn” stories are made up stories about a princess named Joscelyn (Iliana’s middle name) and all of her friends.\u00a0 Her friends include some talking animals like a horse named “Trotter,” a frog named “Ribber,” and many more.\u00a0 The stories must also\u00a0 include the Disney Princesses and many other Disney characters.\u00a0 Well, during last nights story, Princess Joscelyn and Mary Poppins went to Mickey Mouse Clubhouse (all her idea) to have a snack.\u00a0 She asked who was there with Mickey and I said, “Minnie, Donald Duck, Daisy Duck, Goofy, and Pluto.”\u00a0 Which are the usual list of suspects hanging out at Mickey’s crib.\u00a0 And then she said, “Goofy and Pluto are both dogs, but Goofy can talk and Pluto can’t talk.\u00a0 What’s up with that?”\u00a0 Profound.\u00a0 Seriously, what IS up with that?\u00a0 Out of the mouth of babes.\u00a0 Does Goofy symbolize the part of us that wants to be the life of the party?\u00a0 The fun-loving, out-spoken person that doesn’t care what everyone else thinks but is free to be himself?\u00a0 And does Pluto represent that inner struggle to be a “dog” like Goofy but lacks the confidence to “speak” on his behalf?\u00a0 Always worried about what people think and so self conscious that he doesn’t “speak” for fear of being judged or rejected?\u00a0 Granted, she didn’t actually verbalize the last part, but I know she was thinking it.\u00a0 Three years old people…3…years…old.\u00a0 Genius.<\/p>\n

I know, I’m just an over-excited father that is completely in awe of his child and amazed at some of the things she does.\u00a0 I know it sounds cliche, but it really does seem like yesterday that she was this little baby that had to depend on us for everything.\u00a0 And I mean everything.\u00a0 Now, she’s scaling the jungle gym, performing perfect cartwheels (yeah, that’s right.\u00a0 Perfect.), and hooking up video game systems.\u00a0 Time passes so fast.\u00a0 Iliana, if you’re reading this years from now, know that I love you and I am inspired by you.\u00a0 Thank you for being a wonderful daughter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Each day, I am amazed.\u00a0 I am amazed that such a wonderful being can share the same genetic make up as me.\u00a0 Seriously, my daughter is awesome!\u00a0 I’m blown away by some of the stuff that she says and some of the things she does. Just the other day, she...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,13],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dustykennedy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dustykennedy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dustykennedy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dustykennedy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dustykennedy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.dustykennedy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227,"href":"https:\/\/www.dustykennedy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions\/227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dustykennedy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dustykennedy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dustykennedy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}