In order to celebrate Ellie and I's first week at home together without Mommy, we decided to go out and run some errands and have our first daddy-daughter date. And by 'we', I mostly mean me and that I wanted to get out of the house for a while. But that's ok, right? Right! In all seriousness, something that I've heard from a lot of wiser fathers than I (meaning gray hair is present), is that it's a really good thing for fathers to have occasional daddy-daughter dates together. I know from what I've heard that the significance of these times together will increase as Ellie gets older. If I take great lengths to make Ellie feel valued and special as she grows, then she will make certain that whatever guy she drags home for me to disapprove of will also make her feel valued and special. That's a worthy cause for me spending time with my daughter. Also, I'm sure that she will decide that we should go for ice cream on some of these hypothetical dates.
Anyway, Ellie and I headed to Rally House to pick up the
birthday present for my dad that I ordered last week. Of course, I'm never going to pass up to the
opportunity to walk around Rally House.
If for any reason you're unenlightened, Rally House is the premier
destination to buy gear representing your favorite sports team in the Kansas
City Metro area. I definitely always
enjoy any excuse to run in there and seeing as how this was Ellie's first time
there, we needed to at least commemorate the occasion by wandering around the
store for ten minutes. Her wide eyes
taking in the beautiful sights of Royals blue, Chiefs red, Mizzou gold, and
Northwest green. All was well until we
lumbered by the KU section and the fear and loathing (in Las Vegas?) set in at
the sight of the Jayhawk visage. In all
truthfulness, my daughter is so intrigued by being in new places that she is
perfectly happy being lugged around in her car seat for an indeterminate amount
of time.
After leaving Rally House, I texted Bethany and asked if she
would enjoy seeing Ellie for a few minutes at her office since Ellie was awake
and in a fantastic mood. One thing about
carrying a cute baby into an office tower; no one asks questions. I probably could have walked out of the building
pushing an industrial copy machine and no one would have asked any questions
because of the cute baby in a car seat riding on top. Fitting it out of the door of the tower and
loading it in the back of my RAV4 would have been the only issue.
Oddly enough, this short trip to see Bethany
at her office would serve to be the highlight of my day. I know that my wife has had a rough week
trying to adjust to being back at work.
Sleep deprivation, missing her baby, and work itself all play a role I'm
certain. Watching my wife peacefully
hold Ellie, fast asleep in her arms, for a short twenty minute spell and seeing
the huge smile on her face brought me an amount of joy that I've only really
known since Ellie's been born. I think
that's a huge part of what being a dad is all about. Seeing the two people that you love most in
the world with so much joy and in such a state of peace is the most serene and
enjoyable experience. All of us should
be so blessed to experience it at one moment or another. And now that was really sappy. I need to go do something manly now to compensate. #DaddyWrite
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