My Daddy can do that ????

Let me first tell you the back story...

It was the end of the 2008 Summer and Hayden began having an imaginary friend named Michael... He'd call Michael on the phone and talk to him and play with him... Everything you would do with a friend of the imaginary kind... We had no clue who Michael was or even where he came from but we thought it was cute so encouraged him and Michael to play... It wasn't until a few months later that Tony, Hayden and I were in a swim shop getting a new swimsuit for me and new swimming gear for Tony (who still swims sometimes since the good ol' Swim Team days of High School)... As we shopped Hayden pointed to a poster of all people Michael Phelps and said "Daddy, Mommy look its Michael"... Thats right my sons imaginary friend was and still is Michael Phelps and it wasn't until after the Olympics that Michael and Hayden could play and be friends...

So heres the update..

Michael still comes around every once in a while and plays but it was the other day that changed Hayden's thinking of Michael and Daddy forever... I pulled out our old camcorder and videos of High School and came across a State Meet Tony and the Swim Team were in back in 1998... I called Hayden into our room where it was playing and the following happened:

me: "Hayden come watch this"
Hayden: "What we watching Momma"
me: "look" as Hayden jumps up on our bed
Hayden: "we watching Michael???"
me: "No thats not Michael"
Hayden: "yes it is thats Michael he does this" (showing me how Michael warms up on the block)
me: "Hayden thats not Michael"
Hayden: with now a confused look on his face "Who is it then"
me: "thats your Daddy"
Hayden: now with the cutest shocked face ever "My daddy can swim like Michael??"
me: "Yep your daddy can swim like Michael"

Thats all Hayden could talk about the rest of the day was how Tony can swim like Michael... Hayden had to watch it again with Tony that night and has asked me everyday since if he can watch the video again... Tony's even thinking about joining a Masters program which would be an adult league... Could you imagine Hayden then actually watching Tony swim... (I think you should do it Bubba)


Tony back in '98