re: That moment you find out that you're about to have a daughter.

Hey 7th.....she will be the absolute apple of your eye. I too have a one and only girl. IMO, that feeling that a dad has for his only child - a daughter - cannot be reduced to words.

Think of every cliche you've ever heard, and multiply it times 1,000, as they are all true, especially the "don't blink" one.

As me and mine were texting last night about things like grad school choices and holiday plans, I couldn't help but think back to almost 20 years ago, when she wasn't worried about law school.....she was more worried if those "ohios" (coyotes) that she heard in the distance could get us when we were camping in the back yard. Point being, her fears and concerns should change - that's natural. Her reliance on her daddy to help her through all of them shouldn't.

Not sure where you are in life fellow. At 48, I can look back, and think about all the thing that I've fricked up (the list is long), and still sleep soundly at night, knowing THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS - the fact that my daughter knows that I love her, to the point of sacrificing of myself for her, and that as long as I'm on this Earth, she has an advocate/someone in her corner, who will always be on her team, and will always love her, no matter what she does, and that she will always have a place to which she can run, be loved, and be protected - ALL THOSE THINGS being things that did NOT frick up.....I can sleep at night over the stuff I did get wrong, knowing those are right.

There will likely come a time between you and her when yours too realizes all those things I said up there. When you see that, you'll know that you "are done". If you left the world the next day, you'd leave with a daughter that knew pretty much every important thing she needed to know, again, IMO, as her knowing just those things will lead her to make good decisions....one's of which you'd be proud, even if you weren't there to see them.

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my only child will be my princess

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Your assessment is spot on.

Invest in guns now, get to know a PI firm, practice your pissed-off, scowling face.

The greatest thing ever...

Go ahead and start a wedding account now.

little girls are awesome, until they start bleeding everywhere.

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My baby daughter is awesome, but the future does scare the shite out of me.

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Oh boy, if you only knew.

I have a son and daughter from my wife's previous marriage, and we had a daughter together almost 2 years ago. Nothing beats coming home from work and her seeing me and the biggest smile come across her face. She likes to play with dead junebugs on the patio and will come climb up on my lap when im watching football. She is my little princess. My son who is 7 likes to horseplay with her and at times is too rough. I tell him if he EVER makes her cry, he will be crying for a lot longer.

from my observations of my nieces and nephews, it seems that girls are easier in the beginning, but boys are easier in the teens

I'm pretty horrified of my future teenage girl

I always assumed males of a certain animal family would kill the young males to protect their place in the hierarchy. Now I know it's because they wouldn't fricking listen.

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Mine is having bad colic right now though, if I am lucky I get two hours of quiet, right now it is more like an hour before she starts screaming again.

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damn that sucks

those first 3 months are pretty brutal though

it does get better and easier though and then somehow you kinda forget how awful it was in the beginning