Generation 5 - Socrates

Hey! I'm Socrates. Wow! You actually READ these family legacy blogs (short for bore-logs right???)
Heh heh. Ok. Cool. You wanna look at my life? I've got nothing to hide. Nothing. Except maybe this
geeky picture my grandmother Magna made me take on my sixteenth birthday. I guess this picture is
proof that a total geekoid can grow up cool. It's not too late for anyone right? Ok, maybe Gallileo, but he's alien.

This is the picture I WANT you to see of me. Mr. Socrates Legalos with his beautiful wife, Kaylynn. (isn't she hot?)
I have had the hots for her ever since that french maid costume came over to play with me and Mr. Wobbly Head
Wabbit - heh heh. With a teacher like her, a little guy can get to be a pretty smooth talker in no time! I never dreamed
she would wait for me to grow up, but she did, and I adore her.

As long as there is no family reading this... I will tell you that my part of the legacy has very few details - mostly because
;most of them are "steamy" I don't own a camera. Don't believe in it. So the only pictures I have are the ones my family
takes (and boy am I glad about that!) So let's just say that Kaylynn has been and will be the love of my life.

See?

But now I have to tell you about my wedding. See, when I went away to college, Kaylynn promised to wait for me.
My father, Newton, asked her to move in. He didn't feel comfortable having the mother of his grandchildren working
for him. So with Kaylynn living at home, and me off at school, she got this crazy idea to get pregnant (with me of course)
while I was at school, and I would graduate just in time for the baby to be born. I thought it was a swell deal and took
her up on the offer. It was a lot harder than I thought! We had to try like 15 times! (boo hoo huh?) And I made sure
we tried EVERYWHERE just in case that would help her chances of fertility. Finally we hit a home run and we were
pregnant. With that weight off my mind, I was free to concentrate on my "studies" at school. I guess I had a lot of friends
and someone voted me "Big Man On Campus" which was cool. I started a Fraternity called " Ho-Ho-Ho" (if my dad
asks - it's a Christmas thing, ok?) I had a TEN (whoops!) I mean TON of fun in college. Lots of late night study-buddy
parties with the Frathernity Bros, and don't even ask me to do another Bonfire Dance. I got all that boyness out of my
system at college. All of it. Really. I was ready to go home and marry Kaylynn and become a father.

Here I am, a new college graduate, in fact this is the night I came home from school. I came into the house yelling
"Let's have a Wedding". It threw everyone into a frenzy but I was serious. That baby was coming any minute and
I was going to make an honest woman of my little lady. I called up the faternity brothers and they are always up for
a party - including my little bro Apollo. So here Kaylynn and I are, standing at the altar. We didn't even have time
to say hello in all the comotion, but I knew that she was the only one I wanted for the rest of my life. I was ready
to commit - what better way to tell her that then to put on that ball and chain - woops, I mean wedding ring. So
there we are, in front of God and all of our family and friends. And I tell her "Kaylynn, you are the light in my eyes,
the spring in my step, the song in my heart, I pledge my life and soul to you. Will you make me the happiest man alive
and become Mrs. Legalos?". She stammered and my heart stopped beating. Tears began to run down her cheaks
"I can't she whispered, I dont know now" and she ran off. This is probably the only time I'll talk about such an emotional
event, but it was a major wake up call to me. I was shattered, along with the rest of my family. What a way to end a party.
I didn't know how I'd go on. I passed out and when I woke up, Kaylynn was standing over me.

"Soc, are you alright? Have you been out here all night?" Roger brought a Juice barrel to the un-reception and I tried to
drown my sorrows. I think I only succeeded in the drowning part. "Why did you leave Kay? After all this? I thought this
is what you wanted?" It was obvious that Kaylynn had been crying. "Soc, I just want to be sure. You've been gone such
a long time, and well, I was afraid you might have changed your mind. I didn't even know you were coming home until you
walked in the door yelling about a wedding. My hair was a mess, my feet are swollen and I have to pee every five minutes.
I was just hoping to wait until after the baby is here." I was about to start my "but you made a fool of me speech" when Kaylynn
got a strange look on her face and began to howl. "Oh what did I do now?" I grumbled, until I realized she was grabbing her
stomach (again, no pictures - but trust me - you're better off without them.) Right there, in the middle of our fight, and dissolved
wedding lay our baby girl, Isadora. It made us both stop and think about what was important.

Am I boring you?

After Isadora was born, Kaylynn and I spent several days talking about our relationship and the time while I was at school.
See, she claims she saw me coming out of a clothing booth with one of the professors, but I swear, my brother Apollo and
I look so much alike, and he borrows my clothes all the time, and that Gretchen lady, she was a math professor or something,
I only had her for like one class, I swear, it wasn't me. Then she said that one of my fraternity brothers said something to her
about me sleeping with every girl on campus. Of course Fraternity brothers are huge pranksters like that. I mean come on.
EVERY GIRL? Some of them are just ugly.... I told her that she was so hot she made all the other guys in the fraternity jealous
and they would say anything to get her away from me. My life was with her. I had to tell her about 1000x, but she finally believed
me. And we got married. Again. And this time. She stayed.

You can read the whole story here in the "lost episodes" of Legalos Lookback

And so our family grew, not because we were trying this time, actually. I had thought that Isadora would be an only child, but
something got messed up with the birth control and while Isadora was still little bitty, Kaylynn got pregnant again. This time it
was twins. Talk about knocking a Professional Party Guest on his butt! A guy like me? With 3 kids? Where's the mini van???
Ahhh! Honestly, the're the greatest kids in the world. The twins are Plato and Caliopie.

My father, Newton took this of all of us at the breakfast table. He's made me promise to get a formal portait taken
but ugh, the hassle of getting all the kids clean and in their good clothes. I know. Kaylynn can handle it. But my little
Isadora got her grandfather Newton's red hair and her mother's green eyes. Plato and Caliopie got my black hair
(maybe kaylynn's too). Caliopie has blue eyes that I know my dead relatives Capernicus and Aristotle had - for
people who worry about that stuff.

I don't really know who the 'heir' is going to be. To tell you the truth I'm not very into that legacy thing,
although my father insists I must choose one - actually he says it should be my first born - and Isadora is
really special, but if you ask me I'd rather just give this big old house to all three of them. For now I'll just
toss in a pic of my boy, Plato. He's very smart, like his uncle Apollo. Heck, I'm proud of all my kids.

These are my little princesses, Caliopie and Isadora. Isadora is our firstborn and Caliopie is Plato's twin.
We call them the "Irish Triplets" because they were born so close together. I know they're going to make me pay when they are teenagers!

Man, once I get started on these pictures I can't stop. Sorry. I'm just so proud of my kids. This is Isadora and Plato
racing on the obstacle course - yeah! Isadora's still in her good dress. What a tomboy! She takes EVERYTHING so
seriously. I've been trying to get her to lighten up a little bit. From this picture it doesn't look like that's going to happen any time soon.

Why just last night my little Isadora just about gave her old dad a heart attack when she made an 'adult' remark to her mother
(which I won't repeat). I guess Kaylynn and I will have to be more careful around the kids... I certainly hope that this doesn't
mean Isadora is going to follow in my footsteps. I want her to be a nice family girl like her mom.

My baby girl grew up today - when they tell you kids grow up in the blink of an eye they are NOT kidding!
The red braids and the "Please Daddy Please!" have become "Yeah? Uh uh. Right" She's so good looking it's
scary for a dad like me - I know how dangerous those green eyes her mother gave her can be! Right away she
joined the cheerleading squad at school, and although she has lots of friends and loves a party, I think she has
ambitions to eventually find the right guy and have a family.

Shortly after Isadora's Birthday there was a death in the family - Here is a link to the obituary or whatever it's called.

Death of Newton

Do you have ANY idea what it's like to have 3 teenagers at the same time? I can hardly keep up with these kids! But they
are really great. Really. They are all in private school (this keeps Great Grandma Magna from rolling over in her grave) and
they all have after school jobs - and get good grades - and all have received some lucrative college scholarships, I mean could
a dad get any luckier than this??? They picked up this crazy rapping thing when I took them to visit my brother Apollo at my
old Fraternity house Ho-Ho-Ho. That got them really excited about college and the only thing these 3 can agree on is they all
want to go to the same college and take over the Fraternity after Apollo graduates.

I don't know what Ho-Ho-Ho picture Apollo could have shown them depicting Greek-Life that would make them all want to live there so badly...

Ah - it's a proud moment for any father when he comes in from a hard day at work to see his baby girl bumping and
grinding with the exterminator... Caliopie has had a thing for our bug guy ever since she was a kid - she conned him into
playing chess with her after school one day and decided he was the greatest thing since squished bugs. She used to follow
him all over the house telling him where to spray - quite convinced that her brother Plato's underwear drawer was permanently
roach infested. Anyway, I keep this picture put up in a safe place knowing any time I feel like having a heart attack I can just
pull it out and look at it.

Plato is quite the smooth talker as well - this was his first girlfriend, Kissimmee (yes, there have been many more since
her, although I do think she was special to him) But I have to say, Plato knows how to handle his ladies. oh if only I
knew where he got that from.... he he he....

My kids aren't the only ones growing up - Kaylynn and I are growing older as well. My dear Kaylynn is now in her glory years.
For her birthday present I painted her portrait - remembering what she looked like the day I met her because that's the way I'll always see her.

The day before the kids left for college we celebrated our Golden Anniversary. I can't believe we've come this far. Growing up,
Getting married, having kids - where does it all go? I love this woman. I love her! I can't believe she's still putting up with me.