What is it about daddies and daughters?

[Taverner]

I mean, I think my daughter is PERFECT - absolutely PERFECT.

Even when she's crying at full blast and throwing things, she's PERFECT.

[quip]

1. Correct.

And if and when she learns this dirty little secret, you are hosed! :hi:

[Taverner]

3. Fuck, don't I know it

She already knows all she has to do is smile, and I melt...and she's TWO!

(just turned 2 today - it's her birfday)

[quip]

12. Soak up every day; they grow up so quickly! My little girl just turned 20, and it

really feels like it was yesterday when she was that age...

[Radio_Lady]

29. I'm at the stage where even the grandchildren are getting older!

Ah, well.

I'm enjoying it while it lasts.

[Dr. Strange]

14. Mine's coming up on two.

And I'm in the same boat.

"Daddy's Angel" indeed.

[quip]

15. Check this out; it happened in a flash:

1988 Tucson, Arizona


2007 Lutsen (Lake Superior), Minnesota

[Ptah]

16. Thank you, my friend.

I love those smiles!

[quip]

22. See the Wahoo cap? It is signed by Bob Feller. I should scan the pic I have of HIM holding her....

:hi:

[Ptah]

23. Fireball?

Edit to add:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Feller


"Feller was raised in the small town of Van Meter, Iowa, located west of Des Moines,
hence his latter nickname "The Van Meter Heater." The son of a hard-working Iowa farmer,
Bob did many arduous chores that made him physically fit. He used to joke that shoveling
manure and baling hay is what strengthened his arms and gave him the capacity to throw
as hard as he did."

[quip]

27. The guy was an amazing physical specimen at 70! He still threw the ball around and everything.

I need to find that pic....

[Dr. Strange]

17. Why is Jesus holding that little girl?

:P

[quip]

21. This will REALLY make you laugh:

See if you can spot me reaching out to Pope JP II during my junior year abroad (Rome, '82)

[Dr. Strange]

24. Oh I remember that pic!

That's when the temeah is Jesus rumors really started!

[quip]

28. Forgot about that. Well, the point is that I'm not so hirsute these days...

:D

[Dr. Strange]

37. Yeah, grapefruit will do that.

[quip]

40. An aphrodisiac, too! I eat one right after my oysters! OY!

[TZ]

43. What sweet pictures

Makes me all warm and fuzzy inside. With the emphasis on FUZZY in that first picture. Got that Grizzly Adams look going dont'cha!
The two baseball outfits are sooooo cute.
But you know, this thread, like the song "Cats Cradle" really kind of depresses me about should have beens..
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=7495683&mesg_id=7497349

[Arugula Latte]

2. My husband recently took my daughter to a Daddy-Daughter Dance.

He was positively GLOWING. Smitten. He couldn't stop smiling.

[trof]

4. Yeah...it's somethin', ain't it.

She's 35, VERY independent, and still my little girl.
To me, anyway.
I'm so proud of her.

[fight4my3sons]

44. I'm 35 and my dad is far from perfect,

but in my eyes he can do no wrong.
I am definitely a daddy's girl.

It's nice to hear a comment from a dad who has a daughter the same age as me. My dad isn't the most talkative guy, but I know he feels loves me and is proud of me.

[Bucky]

5. Meh, you'll grow out of it.

Wait till 13. This moment will not last.

[Cabcere]

34. It gets better eventually, though.

:hi: When I was 12-13, I was such a screwed-up psychotic mess that I nearly caused my parents' divorce, and more than once my dad threatened to throw me out of the house for good. I tried running away from home a time or two as well, but didn't get far. At any rate, things calmed down over the next couple of years, and now at age 22 I have a pretty good relationship with both of my parents. :hi:

[NewJeffCT]

6. My daughter just turned five

I love her, but I don't always think of her as perfect.

[redqueen]

7. All daughters should have daddies so devoted...

*sigh*

Happy birthday to the lucky little one. :)

[Darth_Kitten]

8. I wouldn't know........

bio dad was a troubled individual I never met and stepdad was for the years I was growing up a drunk.

:(

[Radio_Lady]

30. How sad... sorry you had to endure that. All you can do is grow from those kind of experiences.

Peace, love and happiness -- to you, Darth Kitten,

(Our closing tag line for the children's TV show I did in Miami, Florida 1957-58)

Radio Lady in Oregon

[Inchworm]

9. My daughter is now 20

Making a few "life" mistakes, but to me she is perfect. She is just looking for her nitch.

:yourock::hug:

[quip]

13. Mine, too!

:toast: :pals: I will pray for BOTH of us. :D

[sasquatch]

19. "Making a few 'life' mistakes"

Such as?

[Inchworm]

41. Well - I said mistakes

I don't think that was the right word choice.

Anyhow, I'm gonna be a grandpa! weeee! :)

I can't wait. I miss bebbes and kids.

:hi:

[BarenakedLady]

45. CONGRATULATIONS!!!

:bounce: :toast: :bounce: :toast:

When is she due?

[Inchworm]

46. hi

I thought this may slip by unnoticed. You gumshoe, you!

July.

Thanks :)

:toast:

:hug::loveya::hug:

[triguy46]

10. My son is like my wife, my daughter is like me. It works for all of us.

[Ptah]

11. I know what you mean.

[sasquatch]

18. Douche = YOU!

:P

[Cabcere]

20. I love my dad

:) Even though sometimes we drive each other nuts, and sometimes it seems like nothing I do will ever be good enough for him, and sometimes he thinks I'm a lazy slacker...I love him a lot. :hug: I'm 22 and I still call him Daddy sometimes, and he has a nickname for me that only he is allowed to use - somehow, it doesn't sound right coming from anyone else in my family (and no one outside the family knows about it). Dads are great. :pals:

[quip]

25. You can't imagine how much he loves you, Cab. And I know how you feel, because I

think my daughter feels exactly the same way about me that you do. (Okay, now I'm getting a little verklempt!)

Hmmm, I remember dancing with Natalie (my daughter) to Peter Cetera's song "Daddy's Girl" in the late eighties; no way will I ever hear that song and not have tears well up. :pals:

[ChickMagic]

48. That's so cool!

I'm 54 and still call him Daddy. Creepy to some, but
I don't give a crap. He never used to say "I love you"
until my youngest sister died, and now he won't hang
up the phone until he says it.

He also has a nickname for me that nobody else is
allowed to use. Hubby called me by that nickname once
and I told him he's not allowed to use it.

[Withywindle]

26. On the flip side

My dad and I have driven each other nuts over the decades.

But I have good politics because he does.

I have good taste in music and literature because he does.

I'm snarky and witty because I had to learn to be to survive with him as my dad, and there is no greater gift. (Tough love! It works!)

Tough, though. I can't have any serious boyfriends who couldn't handle a weekend making intelligent conversation with him. (And where they live out in the boonies, there is NOTHING else to do.) I've seen the LOOK he gives me when he thinks I'm settling for someone beneath me. :scared: Not a class thing - economically he's never been anything but blue-collar--it's a THINKING thing.

[quip]

31. I like your dad; he obviously has done well.

:hi:

[Withywindle]

35. Awww. Well, if I say 'yes'

I'm obviously complimenting him, not myself, right?

He realizes the importance of intelligent conversation above all else. Where he and my mom live (pop. 250, cable TV has never been available, nearest shopping mall a 2-hour drive), that's priority #1, above money, sex, you name it. If you don't enjoy each other's company FOR REAL, you won't make it.

[Xipe Totec]

32. I was not blessed with a daughter

I have two sons I'm incredibly proud of, but there are no princesses in my kingdom.

[quip]

36. I look forward to reliving a lot of the earlier times with GRAND daughters!

;) :hi:

[Skittles]

33. as the only girl of six kids

girls can so easily WRAP their dads - yes INDEED

[Ellen Forradalom]

38. My dad was a curmudgeon

but he had a soft spot for his one and only daughter, that's for sure

:loveya: Miss you, Dad.

[fizzgig]

39. mine will always be daddy

he will always help me, but he will also kick my ass if it needs to be done

[TZ]

42. I love my Dad, but

I don't have too many memories of being "Daddy's little girl"(of course there were three of us). Didn't help that my Dad hated showing emotion AND that he and my mom divorced when I was young AND that in 1980 he moved 500 miles away from us (it could have been worse, the choice was either Ohio or California, CA being the better job, but he didn't want to be so far from us)
Seemed like I spent most of my childhood and adult life to trying to live up to my Dad's expectations, and often failing.
Criticism comes much easier to him than praise.
Now, in his old age (and because of the really nice woman he married about 10 years ago) he has softened up quite a bit and says "I love you" quite a bit. Why couldn't he have been like this when I was younger
In many ways, this thread depresses me because of that. Well to all you Daddies of Daughters here, take my words into consideration and remember them so you can avoid the same mistakes.

[gbate]

49. I never felt valued as a girl in my Dad's eyes.

He never seemed protective of me and he never gave me the "Daddy's Princess" vibe. :(

[ChickMagic]

47. I've always been a daddy's girl

and always will. I won't go into the gory details, but
he stood up for me when no one else would while I was
having "female problems" in my teens. He took me to
a student psychologist to work out some stuff about
the gory details. He took me to a doctor friend of
his to test me for cat scratch fever when I was a
kid (it was positive). And I took him as my "date"
to the Baptist church we attended for Valentine'e
day. He was uncomfortable, but he was the only man
in my life.

Now mind you, he never said anything good to my face,
but all his cronies told me what he told them about
me and I was astonished!

I've since learned that hubby has all the good parts
of my dad without the bad parts.