A stay-at-home-dad offers thoughts on the joys and sorrows, and everything in between, of fatherhood.

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Upon Awakening

Someone got her first pair of roller skates yesterday, along with her first set of elbow and knee pads. She already had a helmet to wear while riding her tricycle. The skates, made of bright pink plastic, are the sort you strap around your shoes -- with a heel cup for extra stabilization. I drove up to find my beloved child practicing on her new wheeled shoes, her mom ever-present for support and sudden catches, with the widest eyes and biggest smile I may ever have seen. "I'm a big girl, Daddy," she said, sweat pouring from under her pink helmet, when I opened the car door. "You sure are," I said. "This is incredible."

She wanted to skate one more time before bed, in the pitch dark, and something tells me I know what she's going to want to do when she wakes up.