My daughter is beautiful.
I know that every father thinks that about their little girl, but mine is obvious. Piper is going to be an absolute, "Knock-Out!" At first this was kind of cool. I once felt a since of pride when people would say the phrase, "Your daughter is beautiful (which is strange because she doesn't share any genes with me or Tarah)." Recently, trepidation is what comes over me when I hear this complement over and over again. I start thinking of the brace-faced, hormone-raging, punk boys that are destined to be calling on the phone asking if they can take her to the movies. Earlier this week Piper asked me, "Daddy where did that bump on your arm come from?" I tried to convince her that I got that bump from giving a jujitsu forearm to punk boys and that I would do the same to any boys who don't treat her the way she should be treated. She laughed, but I was serious.
What I once saw as, "pretty cool," I am starting to feel like is a curse. Right now, I have convinced Piper that I am her boyfriend. I have accomplished this through 'daddy dates'. 'Daddy dates' by title are self-explanatory. I try to do everything for her. I pick her up, open the door for her, take her to her favorite restaurant, and pay for her meal. Tarah thinks I treat Piper with more chivalry than I do her on our dates together, but I am trying to show Piper how an honorable man should treat her. Just the other day, the boys were chasing her around the church saying, "Piper's got a boyfriend! Piper's got a boyfriend!" She made it all worthwhile when she corrected the teasing boys, "Yeah, that's right. I do have a boyfriend. My daddy is my boyfriend!" That was awesome. How do I keep this up? What am I going to do when she loses interest in poor-old dad? When she sees me for the boring man that I am? When 'daddy dates' don't work anymore?
Any of you long-time dads of girls got any advice for me?
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