Yesterday, my little girl was born, my son is about four now and I was so happy to have a son and a daughter. My life is now complete.
Yesterday, I woke up late, glad I work the 2nd shift so I could watch my little girl everyday till her mother gets off work at noon. It’s 11:00 am and she is not making a peep, so I go to her room to check on her. Every morning she is standing in her crib, smiling at the morning sunlight that is all around her. I say to her ”morning Coley, are you ready for some breakfast?”. Her smile widens, so does my soul. My little girls affection for sleeping in late everyday, does her daddy’s 2nd shift heart proud.
Yesterday, I was driving down the road and my little girl, for no particular reason says,”
daddy this is how a frog doo’s. I took my eyes off the road briefly and looked over at her and my little girl was somehow making the skin between her bottom lip and her chin move in and out, doing a perfect imitation of a frog doing what frogs doo's with their throats.
I did my best not to run off the road while laughing myself to tears. My little girls is just a couple of years old and I thought, wow she is so smart!
Yesterday, I walked around the corner of the dressing room and was surprised to see my little girl with her mother’s bright red lipstick going around and around her mouth till she looked like Ronald Macdonald. I said emphatically “ Nicole!”. She looked up at me and with her bright red lipsticked smile about the size of a donut; she puckered her lips and said, "am I so pretty?”. I tried to act mad at her for getting into the forbidden makeup drawer, I don’t think I pulled it off.
Yesterday, the whole family was at Spring Mill Park, I took a picture of my little girl sitting in the trunk of our car using her little baby potty. I thought some day when she grows up and her husband sees this picture she will want to kill me. Later that day, we were sitting around the picnic tables having lunch, my little girl was sitting on the ground. My sisters were laughing because my little girl had a wooly worm crawling up her arm. She didn’t scream in terror as they expected, instead she picked the wooly worm off her arm and said “aww he’s so cute", and gave it a kiss. Then my sisters were the ones who were screaming, with laughter. I marveled at this act of bravery, wondering how my little girl could kiss a wooly worm, but go screaming across the house looking for me to save her if a spider gets within a hundred feet.
Yesterday, my little girl brought to me one of our Time Life books on the solar system and said “daddy, lets talk about the Earff”. I had been spending time with the kids reading out of this book and showing them the pictures of all the planets, they were especially interested in the planet “Earff”. I was happy to get down on the floor again with the book, globe of the Earff and a shadeless lamp (the Sun) and show them how it all works one more time.
Yesterday, my little girl came to me and said “daddy I have a splinter in my finger, can you get it out?” I took her tiny hand in mine and looked for the splinter and wondered, why they were making splinters so small these days. I had to get a magnifying glass to find it and the surgery was very difficult. I thought they need to make eyeglasses with magnifying glasses built in. I found out shortly there after that they actually do make glasses like that and I got my first pair of bifocals.
Yesterday, we were at my niece’s wedding and my little girl was the flower girl. She looked so beautiful in her dress. During the reception, she wanted to dance with her daddy when they played her favorite song “Butterfly Kisses”.
While we were dancing, I looked down and saw tears streaming down her face. Fortunately for me, I possess a heart of stone and was able to fend off this onslaught of emotion. There was a lot smoke in the reception hall and some of my family mistakenly thought I was tearing up. How ridiculous.
Yesterday, my little girl was on her deathbed until the school bus was out of sight. With the bus safely down the road she suddenly sprang back to life. I asked her what she attributed her miraculous recovery to. She assured me that it was nothing to be concerned about, she just had a near fatal case of the “comes and the goes”.
Yesterday, I watched my little girl drive away from my house in her first car that she paid for all by herself. I was so proud of her, but so sad to think that she may actually be growing up after I told her time and time again not to do that.
Yesterday, I put my hand on my little girls head, I pushed down and told her to stop growing, I told her I wanted her to always be my little girl. She pushed my hand away and said "no daddy, I have to grow up!"
Today, my little girl disobeyed her daddy and grew up,
Tomorrow I will walk my little girl down the aisle and give her hand in marriage to a wonderful young man who I know will make her happy for the rest of her life.
Tomorrow I hope the reception hall is not too smokey again.
And I hope my little girl doesn’t ask her daddy to dance while they play Butterfly Kisses.
3 comments:
Well geez, nothing like having a good cry first thing in the morning. Now I have to go to work without any makeup on.
Didn't she ask you once what bumblebees were made of?
You'll do fine tomorrow, Big Brother. But I'm placing my bets that you'll get "something stuck" in your eyes escorting your baby down that long walk.
As you said, you're "giving" her to a fine young man and she has become quite a sweet, beautiful woman despite you trying to keep her little.
Just keep telling yourself, "no tears, no tears, no tears" while they stream down your face because she'll be holding your arm, so that "trick" of wiping them away quickly won't be so easily accomplished.
Love ya.
I hope all went well.
My little girl got married a year ago.
That reception hall was really smokey too. Weird, Huh?
It went perfect Joe, thanks.
yeah there was a lot of smoke in my eyes the whole time. that is weird that you had the same problem. haha
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