Daddy's Little Girl

Whoever said the quickest way to a mans heart, is through his stomach; never had a daughter.  I can now say with 80% certainty I am the proud father of an unborn baby girl.  Though I make this declaration with much excitement and joy I also make it with a good deal of fear and trepidation.  In some ways I had been hoping for a boy.  My hope was based on nothing more than I know what to do with a boy (i.e. rough house, go fishing, play ball, play tricks, drive Michelle crazy...).  Further, my experience as a youth pastor allowed me the opportunity to learn that I am not always very sensitive or understanding of girls and that I made more than a couple girls cry (albeit not on purpose).  However, I know that the strongest and toughest men are all conquered by their little girls.  My heart is already captured by the thought of my daughter standing at my feet with her arms raised to up to me wanting nothing more from me than just to hold her.  She will be daddy's little girl, and just like her mother she will have me wrapped around her finger... and I'll like it!