July Update

July is a fantastic summer month. It contains both Independence Day and 31 sweltering hot days filled with sunshine. This specific July also included for you time spent in the small kiddie pool filled with water over at your Grandma Pearl's house. Wherein you found your efforts equally as enjoyable splashing the water as it was spending your time pulling up blades of grass which rested just outside the edge of the pool. After getting several blades of grass clinging to your wet hands you would find that a simple quick splashes would quickly rid your hands of the dangling blades just in time for you to reach over and pull up some more. This practice continued until the bright crisp blue water gathered a sudden blended shade of green.

  We also received first images of your little brother AIden, whose name, I have decided will always be spelled with a capital I in effort to give his name a slight tribute to my Grandfather, Larry Whitacre. His middle name being Alden. You will note the slight resemblance that AIden spelled with a capital "I" and Alden spelled with a lowercase "L" actually present the onlooker with. Your extremely witty Great-Grandfather made mention of this remarkable irony to me over the phone one day at which point I felt this tribute to him would be delightfully perfect to account for his limitless supply of comedic relief for any situation.

  I was also able to schedule all of my classes for this upcomming fall semester where I will continue to push forward to the soon realization of having a degree. Also, with it a much brighter future for yourselves, your mother, and I. It has been quite a struggle so far and I certainly do not expect anything less for the coming months but in the end it will have all been well worth it. Working now to find any little 100 or 500 dollar scholarship I can acquire to help fill about a $4,000 slack we have in our annual budget this year. My efforts are therefore increasingly intense upon finding any side job or part time work I can scrounge as well.

 Regardless, my web development website, Richmond Daddy, continues to increase in traffic and popularity so it is with great optimistic view of the future that I say this budget issue is a slight set back in the now that will ultimately realize itself in a much more secure time yet to be.

This has been your father's take on the world of parenthood for this month. Join us again in August for a look at the struggles of getting a 3 foot tall young man to walk.