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All things Cutler

Burlington Coat Factory and the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society

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Here is Cutler’s clip from this morning.  He needs some fine tuning on looking into the cameras.  🙂

Burlington Coat Factory and the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.

More Live TV For Cutler

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For my Dallas area friends, Cutler will be doing to live broadcasts this week as part of Burlington Coat Factory and Light The Night segments for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.

The first is tomorrow morning on KTXD, http://www.ktxdtv.com/category/257849/d-the-broadcast, somewhere between 9am – 11am. I don’t know the channel for the different tv providers, but for direct tv it is local channel 47. This is the same program we appeared on last year. Naturally I will post a link to the clip as soon as it is provided for those interested.

On Friday morning, between 9am – 10am he will be doing a similar segment on the local ABC affiliate (channel 8 for the locals), http://www.wfaa.com/good-morning-texas.  Again, I will post the link when/if it becomes available.

As the Burlington Coat Factory is donating a % of proceeds on certain days to the Light The Night effort this will be a mini fashion show with Cutler and three other young survivors.  Should be cute.

Speaking of Light The Night, keep on the lookout for my annual effort to start raising funds…only a few months late.  At least we have until October to get some serious fund raising done.

The Butterfly Whisperers

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We recently released some butterflies that we raised from the caterpillar stage and the boys proved to be kindred spirits with the butterflies as they handled them with care even though they would fly to another part of the yard.  Mason went as far as to name them…Rocky (because he hung out in the rocks), Lazy (because he didn’t like to fly much), and unfortunately I have already forgotten the other names.  Below are a couple of photos of the boys connecting with nature.

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Cutler’s New Sport

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On Monday Cutler served as the honored hero for the LLS Links for Leukemia golf tournament and he quickly fell in love with the game as well as a new hockey player.  I was lucky enough to have Cutler join me and Brian for the last 10 holes of the round and he absolutely loved every minute of it from putting, to hitting the driver, to Brian pulling tees and golf balls from his ears.  I can’t even tell you the number of times he told me he wanted to play golf every day now.  During the luncheon I told our story and then Dallas Stars center Vern Fiddler presented a signed jersey to Cutler and gave us another for Mason.  No matter how hard I tried, I could not peal that jersey off of Cutler despite it being so hot outside.  As it turns out, Vern lost his younger sister to Leukemia when she was eight years old and he has taken to working with the LLS as one of his charitable efforts.  We talked for a bit and is usually the case with most professional hockey players I have met, he is an incredibly nice and genuine man.  I appreciate what he is doing to help spread the word about LLS and the fight against blood cancers.

Below is a quick video that the Stars, also a big supporter of LLS, put together on the day as well as a few photos shot from my phone at the course and at our detour to the PGA store on the way home.

http://video.stars.nhl.com/videocenter/console?catid=709&id=246065&cmpid=embed-share-video

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First TV, Now Print

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I recently went to the Make A Wish website and found Cutler’s final hero picture for their big Wish Night fund raiser and as I expected I feel much safer having the super hero sleeping in my house at night.  You can see it at www.wishnight.org.

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After looking around a bit more, I stumbled upon the story of his wish as well.

http://ntx.wish.org/2013/02/25/cutlers-wish-to-go-to-san-diego/

Obviously I am a proud father.

It’s Cutler’s World

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And we are all just happy to be a part of it.  As he gets closer to turning four he is really growing up quickly and developing quite the entertaining and sometimes aggravating personality.  I realize it has been a long time since I have posted anything so I thought that the best way to break my writer’s block/laziness was to just throw together a couple of highlights of living in Cutler’s world in a lovely bulleted format to help hide my babbling state of mind.

  • One of his favorite phrases right now is “Oh Cheese!”.  He is meaning to say “Oh Geez”, but it always comes out as cheese and he is usually quick to include the face palm to show his frustration.
  • He has a lovely aggravating side to him where he knows just how to push Mason’s buttons and you can see his mind formulating before he starts to push.  He clearly knows what he is doing.  (he clearly gets this from his mother)
  • My pet name for him is monkey and this morning reminded me why as I was trying to get him dressed he was running around slapping his hands and just making noises and laughing.  The only difference between him and a monkey in the zoo at that point was that he wasn’t throwing his pooh everywhere, but please don’t give him any ideas.
  • He is also starting to show some unexpected wisdom.  Last Friday he and I were at Red Robin, he calls it Red Robins, for dinner and when we went to wash our hands he asked why the soap was blue when the place was called Red Robin.
  • On a sad note, Cutler has now decided Thomas is no longer necessary to exist as Batman and other super heroes has completely pushed away the need/desire to play with trains.  He has given us permission to give the trains away, which is kind of sad to me as it is a sign of him growing older and it’s always more peaceful for him to play with the trains than it is to play super heroes with him.

That’s pretty much it for now.  We are off next week to give skiing a try.  I expect Melanie and the boys to excel and am setting my sights on avoiding any broken bones.  Will post pictures sometime next week, provided my hands are not in casts.

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