{"id":1218,"date":"2012-06-15T09:30:10","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T13:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mayahoodblog.com\/?p=1218"},"modified":"2012-06-15T10:27:38","modified_gmt":"2012-06-15T14:27:38","slug":"an-ode-to-my-da-da-for-fathers-day-by-kyle-fitzpatrick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayahoodblog.com\/an-ode-to-my-da-da-for-fathers-day-by-kyle-fitzpatrick\/","title":{"rendered":"An ode to my Da-da for father’s day – by Kyle Fitzpatrick"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first and last person that Kyle sees every day is his dad (my husband), John.\u00a0 It’s no wonder they have such a special and close bond.\u00a0 For this year’s father’s day, Kyle wanted to do something special.\u00a0 Here’s a poem he wrote to his Da-da.<\/p>\n

Da-da,<\/p>\n

Thank you for coming to get me out of my crib every morning when I wake up.\u00a0 I’ve learned to call for you instead of Maya (aka mommy) because I think she’s too lazy.\u00a0 She’s always asleep whenever we’re up in the morning and playing.\u00a0 I mean, who sleeps-in after 6 am anyways?!? I digress…<\/p>\n

I’m so glad that you taught me how to stick handle before I turned 2.\u00a0 You know that goal (aka hockey) is my favourite sport, followed by home run (aka baseball).\u00a0 I’m so happy that Maya bought us matching blue-jay hats.\u00a0 I guess it’s cool that she has one too.\u00a0 Thanks for taking me to the park almost every night to watch the kids play floor hockey.\u00a0 It’s my favourite part of the day.\u00a0 I know you say it’s good to let Maya relax, but I think you just want some alone time with me and I don’t mind.\u00a0 I want some\u00a0manly time with you too.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I’m glad that you’re over the whole “no junk food for the kids” rule.\u00a0 I\u00a0know that you try eating\u00a0dessert\u00a0after dinner each night, but I always catch you.\u00a0 It would be nice if sometimes you let me eat the whole piece instead of just giving me a portion and you eating the rest.\u00a0 But I’m just glad I get something, especially since Ice-cream is my favourite food-group.\u00a0\u00a0I’m okay with the no sugary-cereal rule.\u00a0 Plain\u00a0Cheerios are my favourite anyways.<\/p>\n

Thanks for trying to teach me how to dance, but I think I’ll take my cues from Maya.\u00a0 I’m not saying she’s great, but she’s a whole lot better than you.\u00a0 I do however love dressing just like you.\u00a0 I’m glad that you like it too because I heard Maya say that you hate it when she tries to coordinate clothes with you.<\/p>\n

I think\u00a0it’s cool that sometimes\u00a0you have to fly or take a taxi to work.\u00a0 But my favourite part of every day is running to the door when you’re home.\u00a0 I’m not sure about the whole lifting me into the lights part, but you seem to enjoy it, so it’s fine with me.<\/p>\n

Mostly, I want to thank you for being the best da-da in the world.\u00a0 I couldn’t have picked a better one myself.\u00a0 All I want to say is “GA” (aka: I love you sooooo much, happy father’s day).<\/p>\n

Your favourite son, Kyle<\/p>\n

*This blog post has not been edited by John as I wanted it to be a surprise for him.\u00a0 I apologize in advance that it’s not as funny as it could have been.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The first and last person that Kyle sees every day is his dad (my husband), John.\u00a0 It’s no wonder they have such a special and close bond.\u00a0 For this year’s father’s day, Kyle wanted to do something special.\u00a0 Here’s a poem he wrote to his Da-da. Da-da, Thank you for coming to get me out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"An ode to my Da-da for father's day - by Kyle Fitzpatrick http:\/\/wp.me\/p248bN-jE","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1343,406,34934352,124,5309],"tags":[137227457,3253,84566,6830,133723,3785,34920942,1720,22106],"class_list":{"0":"post-1218","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-children","8":"category-family","9":"category-holidays-2","10":"category-life","11":"category-parenting","12":"tag-children","13":"tag-dad","14":"tag-daddy","15":"tag-father","16":"tag-fathers-day","17":"tag-love","18":"tag-parenting-2","19":"tag-poem","20":"tag-son","21":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\nAn ode to my Da-da for father's day - by Kyle Fitzpatrick - Mayahood<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/mayahoodblog.com\/an-ode-to-my-da-da-for-fathers-day-by-kyle-fitzpatrick\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"An ode to my Da-da for father's day - by Kyle Fitzpatrick\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The first and last person that Kyle sees every day is his dad (my husband), John.\u00a0 It’s no wonder they have such a special and close bond.\u00a0 For this year’s father’s day, Kyle wanted to do something special.\u00a0 Here’s a poem he wrote to his Da-da. Da-da, Thank you for coming to get me out […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/mayahoodblog.com\/an-ode-to-my-da-da-for-fathers-day-by-kyle-fitzpatrick\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Mayahood\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2012-06-15T13:30:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2012-06-15T14:27:38+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/mayahoodblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/35_kyle-09-18-11medium.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"681\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Maya Fitz\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Maya Fitz\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/mayahoodblog.com\/an-ode-to-my-da-da-for-fathers-day-by-kyle-fitzpatrick\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/mayahoodblog.com\/an-ode-to-my-da-da-for-fathers-day-by-kyle-fitzpatrick\/\",\"name\":\"An ode to my Da-da for father's day - by Kyle Fitzpatrick - Mayahood\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/mayahoodblog.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/mayahoodblog.com\/an-ode-to-my-da-da-for-fathers-day-by-kyle-fitzpatrick\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/mayahoodblog.com\/an-ode-to-my-da-da-for-fathers-day-by-kyle-fitzpatrick\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/mayahoodblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/35_kyle-09-18-11medium.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2012-06-15T13:30:10+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2012-06-15T14:27:38+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/mayahoodblog.com\/#\/schema\/person\/ab87498b10435d27bfa2b016e7110739\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/mayahoodblog.com\/an-ode-to-my-da-da-for-fathers-day-by-kyle-fitzpatrick\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/mayahoodblog.com\/an-ode-to-my-da-da-for-fathers-day-by-kyle-fitzpatrick\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/mayahoodblog.com\/an-ode-to-my-da-da-for-fathers-day-by-kyle-fitzpatrick\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/mayahoodblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/35_kyle-09-18-11medium.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/mayahoodblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/35_kyle-09-18-11medium.jpg\",\"width\":681,\"height\":1024},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/mayahoodblog.com\/an-ode-to-my-da-da-for-fathers-day-by-kyle-fitzpatrick\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/mayahoodblog.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"An ode to my Da-da for father’s day – by Kyle Fitzpatrick\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/mayahoodblog.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/mayahoodblog.com\/\",\"name\":\"Mayahood\",\"description\":\"A blog about parenting, family-friendly travel & product reviews\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/mayahoodblog.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/mayahoodblog.com\/#\/schema\/person\/ab87498b10435d27bfa2b016e7110739\",\"name\":\"Maya Fitz\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/mayahoodblog.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0f93a95ecc497d4225d2ab83a4267bb1?s=96&d=identicon&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0f93a95ecc497d4225d2ab83a4267bb1?s=96&d=identicon&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Maya Fitz\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/mayahoodblog.com\/author\/mayahoodblog\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"An ode to my Da-da for father's day - by Kyle Fitzpatrick - Mayahood","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/mayahoodblog.com\/an-ode-to-my-da-da-for-fathers-day-by-kyle-fitzpatrick\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"An ode to my Da-da for father's day - by Kyle Fitzpatrick","og_description":"The first and last person that Kyle sees every day is his dad (my husband), John.\u00a0 It’s no wonder they have such a special and close bond.\u00a0 For this year’s father’s day, Kyle wanted to do something special.\u00a0 Here’s a poem he wrote to his Da-da. Da-da, Thank you for coming to get me out […]","og_url":"https:\/\/mayahoodblog.com\/an-ode-to-my-da-da-for-fathers-day-by-kyle-fitzpatrick\/","og_site_name":"Mayahood","article_published_time":"2012-06-15T13:30:10+00:00","article_modified_time":"2012-06-15T14:27:38+00:00","og_image":[{"width":681,"height":1024,"url":"https:\/\/mayahoodblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/35_kyle-09-18-11medium.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Maya Fitz","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Maya Fitz","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/mayahoodblog.com\/an-ode-to-my-da-da-for-fathers-day-by-kyle-fitzpatrick\/","url":"https:\/\/mayahoodblog.com\/an-ode-to-my-da-da-for-fathers-day-by-kyle-fitzpatrick\/","name":"An ode to my Da-da for father's day - by Kyle Fitzpatrick - Mayahood","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/mayahoodblog.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/mayahoodblog.com\/an-ode-to-my-da-da-for-fathers-day-by-kyle-fitzpatrick\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/mayahoodblog.com\/an-ode-to-my-da-da-for-fathers-day-by-kyle-fitzpatrick\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/mayahoodblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/35_kyle-09-18-11medium.jpg","datePublished":"2012-06-15T13:30:10+00:00","dateModified":"2012-06-15T14:27:38+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/mayahoodblog.com\/#\/schema\/person\/ab87498b10435d27bfa2b016e7110739"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/mayahoodblog.com\/an-ode-to-my-da-da-for-fathers-day-by-kyle-fitzpatrick\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/mayahoodblog.com\/an-ode-to-my-da-da-for-fathers-day-by-kyle-fitzpatrick\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/mayahoodblog.com\/an-ode-to-my-da-da-for-fathers-day-by-kyle-fitzpatrick\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/mayahoodblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/35_kyle-09-18-11medium.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/mayahoodblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/35_kyle-09-18-11medium.jpg","width":681,"height":1024},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/mayahoodblog.com\/an-ode-to-my-da-da-for-fathers-day-by-kyle-fitzpatrick\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/mayahoodblog.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"An ode to my Da-da for father’s day – by Kyle Fitzpatrick"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/mayahoodblog.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/mayahoodblog.com\/","name":"Mayahood","description":"A blog about parenting, family-friendly travel & product reviews","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/mayahoodblog.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/mayahoodblog.com\/#\/schema\/person\/ab87498b10435d27bfa2b016e7110739","name":"Maya Fitz","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/mayahoodblog.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0f93a95ecc497d4225d2ab83a4267bb1?s=96&d=identicon&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0f93a95ecc497d4225d2ab83a4267bb1?s=96&d=identicon&r=g","caption":"Maya Fitz"},"url":"https:\/\/mayahoodblog.com\/author\/mayahoodblog\/"}]}},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/mayahoodblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/35_kyle-09-18-11medium.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3dEqj-jE","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayahoodblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayahoodblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayahoodblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayahoodblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayahoodblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1218"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/mayahoodblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1229,"href":"https:\/\/mayahoodblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218\/revisions\/1229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayahoodblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayahoodblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayahoodblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayahoodblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}