We recently submitted a photo of Daniel to the Gerber Generation Photo Search which is a monthly contest to find the next Gerber baby. You can browse through their gallery of submitted photos and vote for your favorites on a daily basis. Babies with the most votes in their age group at the end of the month win a HD camera and have their photo featured on the website. After 6 months, some babies are somehow selected to win the grand prize of being featured in a Gerber ad and receive a $25,000 scholarship.
So every day for the month of September, I have been trying to vote for Daniel as many times as allowed. They only allow you to vote once per machine per email so I've been voting with a combination of home and work laptops. With the help of some friends and family, Daniel currently has about 140 votes.
However I was disheartened today when I saw another baby with 599 votes! That's as many votes as the Patriots have given up on defense the first 3 games of the season! I'm sure if I kept looking through the thousands of other submissions, I might have found some babies with more. It's kind of sad realizing that my little Daniel won't be a Gerber baby this month...
And then it hit me; I know it's futile to keep voting for him. Even if Tary and I each voted twice each day for the rest of this month, there aren't enough days to catch up. But you know what? I'm going to keep voting for him. Sometimes in life you know you're going to lose but you still have to give it your all. I love Daniel that much and I'm going to keep rooting for him. At least when this month is over and we didn't win, I can look at him and tell him that at least his Daddy tried. When it comes to Daniel, I'll never give up.
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