Daddy Dearest,

Wouldn’t you know it would be a girl who gets credit for Father’s Day? Her name was Sonoma Dodd and she came up with the idea when she was in church in 1909 but it took her a whole year to get it together so the first Father’s Day wasn’t celebrated until the next year.

She lived in Washington (not where the President lives but the state.) and she had to wait until she was really old to get the President to make it a national holiday in 1972.

And here is a great jigsaw puzzle on JigZone for you to do that says how much we love you (and it's a card too!)

Be a Fan of Your Kid has this neat word puzzle for us to do together.  We'll take care of all the hard words for you:) 

We forgot to get you a card. (Mom said she would take us to the store but we weren’t very good and she made us stay home after we flushed the soap down the toilet and the repair man had to fix it so we could go to the bathroom.)

Can we use your computer to go to 123greetings and create a FREE electronic card to send you?  I can count to 100 and I can say all my abc;s but not all at the same time. Would you like to hear me? We found more ecards and crafts and fun things to do at Alphabet Soup.

We would like to color you a page too. Could you download the Father’s Day coloring pages from Holidays on the Net and Kaboose? And we need crayons and markers too. Momma said to ask you but not wake you up but you’re awake aren’t you?

We looked up all about your special day on Wikipedia but then Mom made us go clean up the mess we made trying to fix you a special cake.  We used all your favorite things; popcorn, chips, apples and coffee but it didn't turn out very well so Mom said she would make a good one and say we helped her do it as long as we went to our rooms while she baked. 

Mom said you could put our pictures up in your office ‘cause there is no room on the fridgerator. When are you going to take us back to your work? We promise to be real good and not get bubble gum in the elevator buttons this time.

We thought we’d adopt a big animal for the day at World Wildlife Fund. (It is only on paper so you won’t have to walk it in the cold and rain and won’t have to clean up after it.) We could get you an elephant? (Aren’t you glad you don’t have to clean up after him?)

We also thought you might like a tiger or a gorilla or maybe  a penguin. (Do tigers use really big litter pans like our kitty? We forgot to clean it the other day and she used our sandbox outside and Momma got really mad.)

Of course, our favorite animal is the panda bear. I don’t think they are too big and would be really great as a pet but Momma said there were enough wild animals in the house today. We don’t have any wild animals, do we? World Wildlife Fund Adoption Center. (Can we borrow the credit card?)

She said that she didn't have time to make the cake after she cleaned up where we accidentally knocked the crayons into the thing in the sink that eats things up - but not crayons. So she said you would help us make some brownies for dessert. Ya want us to go get the box.

After dinner, Mom said we are all going to take a long walk. We wanted to watch a video but Momma says that when people get as old as you they got to exercise so they can stay healthy and be with us for a long, long time.

We want you around for longer than that because we love you. Happy Father’s Day, Your Kids.
 

We love you, Dad