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Now Playing #SaveRiggins The Movie

loswhit — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 01:51:24 +0000

Last week on Twitter I documented the horrific and terrifying experience of my kitten, Riggins, getting his head stuck in a toy.
Here is what happened…

Yes. You just watched 3:33 seconds of that.
Riggins Thanks You.
#SaveRiggins…
Los

Need To Flush Out Your Tear Ducts This Morning?

loswhit — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 16:48:38 +0000

After my night the other night…
Um. Seriously?
I cried the second his little girl saw him.
Did you cry? Let’s just pass out the tissues…
Los

So You Wanna Be A Dad // Focus

loswhit — Fri, 15 May 2009 21:16:22 +0000

To be a father takes focus, determination, and an unwillingness to never waver from the goal.

Click here for more fathering advice

I love my life.
Los

Dad, Do I Have To Wear My V-Neck To Church?

loswhit — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 21:27:50 +0000

In my lifetime, 35 years, I have seen “worship music” go from pipe organ and choirs, to acoustic guitars and camp choruses, to acoustic Dave Matthews wannabe worship bands, to Passion dominating the scene with loop based sounds, to Hillsong United bringing in 15 guitars to the stage with face melting licks. And soon that will be gone.
I am fully aware that each one of these styles still exists.
But I am pondering a few questions…
1. What is the next sound that will dominate Sunday mornings across America?
2. If your church has a “sound”, will you be willing to change or become “that church” whose pipe organ and ties has simply been replaced with an electric guitars and v-necks.

Your thoughts are appreciated…
Los

So I’m A Dad // Family Night With Snowmen

loswhit — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:27:04 +0000

So You Want To Be A Dad // Family Night – Snow Man Theme from Carlos Whittaker on Vimeo.

Home is more important than your “real” job.
Remember it IS your real job.
Los

So I’m A Dad // She Won’t Drive

loswhit — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 06:24:11 +0000

So You Wanna Be A Dad // She Won’t drive from Carlos Whittaker on Vimeo.

Happy DAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYY!!!!
Los

So I’m A Dad // Merry Christmas Tree Setup

loswhit — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:17:11 +0000

So I’m A Dad // Merry Christmas Tree Setup from Carlos Whittaker on Vimeo.
I’m jealous of me for me having the most rad family in the world.
When does your tree go up?
Los

So I’m A Dad // Bad Medicine

loswhit — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 03:21:41 +0000

So it is like a mini fathers day around here today. Sorry about that. But this was too good not to share…

So I’m A Dad // Bad Medicine from Carlos Whittaker on Vimeo.

Remember?
Los

So I’m A Dad // And It Breaks My Heart

loswhit — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 04:19:41 +0000

There are feelings you will never experience until you have a child.
What a bunch of crap.
How can you, old married fat dude, tell me, hip cool wannabe-sexually active virgin, that kids create some sort of deeper level of who I am?

I know. I know. All you singlets out there click off when you start reading this crap.
Oh no. Another father post.
Yea.
But I felt something tonight I have never, ever felt.
I still don’t know what it is called.
It was confusion mixed with pain, mixed with fear, mixed with love.

Sohaila has been suffering with eczema for years.
She has had it so bad that her beautiful arms are splotched with large white patches of discoloration.
When it is bad her arms are almost reptile like.
She NEVER says anything about it.
She NEVER says anything about it.
She NEVER says anything about it.
She knows she needs to put her lotion on and does not complain when it is itching her like a wild fire.
She wears bathing suits and sleeveless shirts with her friends and never even bats an eye to the splotches on her arms.
She likes it when I scratch her arms at night as she goes to sleep.
She is a confident, proud, little girl and hears her daddy tell her 45 times a day that every other daddy in the world is jealous of me because they can’t call her theirs.
She always blushes, bats her eyelashes at me, then tells me she loves me.

Well she got this funk the other day.
Impetigo.
It gave her some rash under her bottom lip.
The doctor treating her saw her eczema as well and gave us the typical ointment with steroids that we never put on her because we are trying to find a treatment that does not have steroids in it.
For the sake of the cause, we went ahead and put the ointment on her arms.
The impetigo is already going away with the antibiotics.

She never says anything about her skin.
But tonight,
When Heather was putting her to bed,
After 3 days of the cream on her arm,
Without any prompting,
She looked at Heather and said…
“Look mommy!!! It’s working! It’s working!”
Her arms were smooth and my eyes were wet.
When I heard her I knew.
I knew no amount of love I pour over her has been able to offset the fact that she lives with this everyday and at the sight of healing, she couldn’t help but shout out.
I’m crying as I type this because I had no idea.
No idea.
How strong she is.
Strong enough to never complain.
Strong enough to show her arms to the world.
All the while praying inside that her arms would look normal.

Heather responded with…”Yea baby. It is working.”
Sohaila just smiled…
grabbed her piggy…
and went to sleep.

So yea.
I am proud, sad, in love, and sorry.
All those things mixed together.
For a 6 year old.
Who has the soul of a giant.
But the heart of a little girl.

You have no idea.
I didn’t,
Until tonight.
Los

So I’m A Dad // Birthday Party Day

loswhit — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:46:43 +0000

Untitled from Carlos Whittaker on Vimeo.

Music by Lecrae Featuring Cam and Dwayne Tryumf

“Remember, the most important ministry in your life is not at your church, it begins when you get home and walk through the doors. Everything else pales in comparison.”
- Jeff Henderson

Can I get a witness?
Los