{"id":469,"date":"2009-06-21T18:36:23","date_gmt":"2009-06-22T02:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heathervale.com\/blog\/?p=469"},"modified":"2023-04-17T16:12:40","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T00:12:40","slug":"another-special-first-fathers-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heathervale.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/21\/another-special-first-fathers-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Special First&#8230; Father&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https:\/\/heathervale.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/21\/another-special-first-fathers-day\/&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=1&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;font=\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:25px\"><\/iframe><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fheathervale.com%2Fblog%2F2009%2F06%2F21%2Fanother-special-first-fathers-day%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=80\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:80px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><p>Barry had his first Father&#8217;s Day today&#8230; an amazing milestone in the journey of parenthood.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;float: right\" title=\"Konan and Barry\" src=\"http:\/\/heathervale.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/Barry-Konan-20wks2-small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"365\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And I got a milestone too.<\/p>\n<p>I got to appreciate how my favorite man has given the best of what he&#8217;s got (time, energy, love, and of course, genes!) to my favorite boy.<\/p>\n<p>Konan is the most amazing thing to have happened to us, and more incredible than we ever could have imagined.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that two people can come together and create a third that&#8217;s so special, so perfect, and so ready to learn, grow, develop, and experience everything they can from life is just mind-boggling.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, millions of people have experienced this very thing before&#8230; but it doesn&#8217;t make it any less awe-inspiring for those of us who are going through it for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Konan turned 8 months old yesterday (this favorite picture of mine was taken a couple of months ago) so he&#8217;s already 2\/3 of his way to becoming a year old.<\/p>\n<p>A year full of firsts&#8230; and today was one of the most special.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Father&#8217;s Day, Big Bear!<\/p>\n<p>And to Konan (and the rest of us, too)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keep Unwrapping The Mysteries of Life!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Heather Vale Goss\" src=\"http:\/\/heathervale.com\/images\/sigHVG_2.1_blue.gif\" alt=\"Heather Vale Goss\" width=\"205\" height=\"35\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barry had his first Father&#8217;s Day today&#8230; an amazing milestone in the journey of parenthood. 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