Yet Another Guest Artist.

We now come to the youngest member of our clan. She has blessed us with a magnificent picture of a man enjoying a boat ride. She really loves her little coloring pages she got for birthday. They actually make sounds while she colors the different parts of the picture. Pretty Cool. So I would like to say 'Thak you' to my Little Squirt for her lovely contribution.

Going To Party With Dad

Hi! This is the daughter of Gary's Greetings. You can call me Cat Woman. Before I drew this drawing I was playing with my Barbies and Barbie was going to a party with Ken.They were going to dance the night away.Then Ken broke his arm and Barbie called the ambulance and they put a cast on his arm.So that`s what inspired this picture.I love to draw.GOOD BYE everybody.

Pizza Party

Well, here it is. I finally finished it today. I was asked by my oldest daughter to draw a picture of Wonder Woman, Batgirl and Supergirl eating pizza. I have to admit that this request threw me for a bit of a loop. I had 15 failed attempts before coming up with this one. I did create this from a blank piece of paper, no tracing, but I can't take credit for the original creation. The original art work was created by Tom Bancroft an excellent artist with enormous talent.

I think it turned out just pretty good. Everyone is enjoying a slice of pepperoni pizza. I hope she likes it. Sometimes it takes me forever to get a picture going. I have to actually be in the mood to draw. If I'm not 100% ready then I can't draw a straight line with a ruler.

Either way, I am finally done with it and I can get on to two other requests that have been made. One being from my oldest son to deliver a picture of Nightwing and Robin fighting. I already have an idea in mind and I do believe I am ready to start it next.

Another Request

After seeing the last Wonder Woman picture that she requested on the blog, my oldest daughter instantly requested another picture. What she asked for was a picture of wonder Woman tying Supergirl up with her magic lasso. After starting, this is what I came up with. I think it turned out pretty good. I know that Supergirl is not tied up but she is definitely worried about what is going to happen next. I hope my daughter likes it.

Wonder Woman

After seeing the picture of Superman I had drawn for my oldest son, my oldest daughter requested a picture of Wonder Woman. Well, here she is. I think it turned out quit nice. I hope she likes it. I enjoyed drawing this one. Hoepfully its good enough for my little Wonder Woman.

My Little Squirt

Well it took forever, but I finally got it done. This is the last one, our little caboose. I have never had a picture so hard to draw before in my life, but it was worth it. I think it turned out pretty good. I will get the final and absolute opinion today when my little ones arrive and Squirt sees her picture. Then and only then will I know if it is worthy of her Highness.

I'm not sure what to say about our little relationship. I know it started out rocky at best. I wasn't allowed to be there when she was born, I was told she wasn't mine, and then she was taken over an hour away from me at the most impressionable time of her life. She never had the chance to know me like her brothers and sister did. That whole coming home at the end of the day and having me scoop her up and get some well deserved tummy sugar. Or having me walk into her class room and pick her up from daycare. I have missed her first words, her first steps, almost all of her 'firsts'.

I suppose we could dwell on that and have what time we do spend together to become uncomfortable and misused, but we don't. We have decided to take each other and hold on tight for every second we have. I love her with every beat of my heart and I make sure she knows it. I will never forget the time she was just sitting outside, playing in the dirt and looked up at me with a big, beautiful smile. I asked her what she was smiling about and she jumped up, ran into my arms and said, " I was thinking about how much I love you, Daddy." then went right back to her dirt moving. I thought my heart was going to explode right out of my chest. My head had filled so much with pride that I thought I wouldn't get it through the door. Yes sir, she has me wrapped, and she knows it. Of course, there was also the time when we were playing and I stopped and said, "I love you, Squirt." to which she simply replied, "I love me too." Ah yes, the witty things she says.

I am so thankful for all 4 of my children. I can't say that I love one more than I love then others. They are all so dear to my heart. But the fact that me and the Little Squirt are so happy together after all of the barriers we had in our way just feels so special.

I love you Squirt. I am so proud to have you as my daughter. I hope that one day I can return the favor and make you as proud to have me as your father.

My little Dumplin (Take Four)

And here she is. Making her Gary's Greetings debut, My little dumpie Dumplin. My third oldest child and my oldest girl. I have called her my Dumplin ever since her first day in this world. When she was born, she was tiny and white and all wrinkled up, just like a dumpling.

She is a true Daddy's girl and that is just fine with me. In fact, if she wants to be a Daddy's girl for the rest of my life that would be perfect.(Hint, hint)

When Dumpie was still a little baby she would love to get up at 3:00 in the morning and come see me. She had a 'system' that her mother and me HAD to follow. Her mother was to get up and get her and then bring her to me. If we deviated from this plan in anyway, she would not be a happy baby. I would wrap her up in a blanket and we go and sit in a rocking chair on the porch and watch the sun come up together almost every morning. I can still see those big green eyes staring up at me, so trusting and so full of love. Those big green eyes have turned brown now to match her mother's, but she is still just a pretty. I could fill this entire post on just how beautiful she is, but she is much more than that. She is so much more.

She is a very strong, smart, funny and caring young woman. She has enough love in that heart of hers to fill the Grand Canyon and it over flow. She can take me down with a shoestring tackle that would rival any NFL player, and she finds it absolutely hilarious that stepping on the back of my shoe, while running, will not only cause me to go down in a game of 'kill the daddy with the ball', it will also tear the sole right off of my shoe. She makes straight A's and thinks it is funny as hell every time Cindy Lauper pins her father up against the wall in the 'Girls Just Want To Have Fun" video.

She has tickle spots all over and doesn't mind asking to get them tickled. She has a laugh that is loud and infectious. If you hear her laugh and don't laugh yourself it is because you heart quit beating and you need to see a doctor. She has some of the best ear and neck sugar ever, and it is my responsibility to get as much of that sugar as the law will allow every time we are together.

She loves to throw tea parties and she loves the Jonas Brothers. She loves to color and to talk on her toy cell phone to Nick and let him know that she is going to marry him immediately. She loves her Barbies and her bath fizzies. She loves to climb up into my lap and curl up into a tight little ball and tuck her head under my chin and sit and snuggle for hours.

She said she wants to be a doctor when she grows up and she has the ability and the potential to do just that, and more if she wants to. She is going to be challenged though. She has to grow up in a world where the TV is covered with the images of women that only care about how big their boobs are or if they have too much arm hair. Music videos where the women are only there to see how fast they can bounce their butts, and men that just think a woman is here for their pleasure or that she is here to be lied to and made fun of. I know she can learn to see past all of that and become the beautiful, caring, strong young woman that I know she can be. I hope she learns to see her potential is unending. I hope she is always the knockout champion. I hope that she learns that the only reason she needs a man in her life is because he completes her and not because 'she can't fix her car because she's a girl'. I hope that one day she knows how proud of her I am, but she'll never really know how much I love her.