Page 148 of Crazy Love

And then it’s the most delicious thing in the world.

I want to always be the gateway to him finding things he loves.

~Rhodes

I tap the page and look up at Rhodes. “That’s profound, man. Be the gateway.”

He grins. “You’re doing it already with Sam and Winnie…I see you, man.”

My chest swells with pride and more than a little relief that I might be getting something right.

There’s a moment in time

When we discover the power of

The Dad Look.

Your kid is about to do something risky.

You lock eyes.

No blinking.

Raise the brows.

Insert The Dad Look.

Unless they’re Gracie, they stop what they’re doing.

The rest of the time?

That’s why Band-Aids and mops were invented.

~Henley

I laugh out loud at that. “Must be a girl thing because the looks I try on Winnie just make her want to do it more.”

They laugh.

“She’s hilarious,” Weston says.

I didn’t really get to be the cool dad with Becca.

There was too much glitter in my scruff.

And my hair got lots of ponytails…

That kind of thing.

Which I wouldn’t trade for anything.

I love being a girl dad.

But Jonas saw me throw a football

across the yard the other day,

And he plopped down on his diaper butt

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