Learning how to Dress a Girl

I've learned a lot in my first year of being a dad, but today I was reminded again, that I don't have much knowledge of how to dress a girl. I'm not the worst (these are my words), but have some strange choices (my Wife's words). Today around Noon, Rachel looks at me strange... "did you realize that you put Addy's dress on backward this morning?"

Let me explain myself here, I always look for a tag to make sure I know which is the front vs. the back, this one didn't have one that I could find. Why oh why do some dresses have the buttons going up the back and some up the front, you have to realize that this is confusing for a Dad. I guess I should have noticed that the label that said "Daddy's Girl" actually ended up on her back, I mean that's most of the reason I picked the dress in the first place, it should be proudly displayed out front for everyone to see. Sooo, in retrospect, my bad.

In any event after I got the dress off and turned it around, I was reminded of why I picked the dress in the first place, she looks so stinkin' cute...

... even though she was more interested in playing with the camera than posing for it.

So, Moms with Sons, are you experiencing any Gender dressing shock, or is this a guy thing? When I think about it though, guys clothes aren't confusing, I mean I don't think it's hard to put pants on straight, unless you are Kris Kross (if you are younger than 30, look it up). And, I don't think your little boy is wearing a bow tie or an ascot... At least buttons on jeans are always in the front... that's what I call consistency.

Semi-Throwback Thursday

So, since I've moved my blog over to blogger from tumble, I've been slowly (but surely) transferring all of my old posts. I haven't found any easy way to do it besides copy (tumblr) and pasting (blogger) the old post and re-uploading the photos. If you know a better way please let me know. In any event I had an idea, if I'm going to be going through this tedious process maybe I will re-share some notable older posts for people that may not have seen them the first go. Here is one, originally posted Oct. 22, 2010 7:49pm (Addy was 5 days old)

To My Ladies

To my Wife and Daughter:
I woke up earlier than you did this morning, I just had to take a photo of how beautiful both of you looked, although I didn't want to leave the Mommy, Addy, Daddy sandwich. I can't really describe to you how complete my life is now, I feel more selfless each day thinking of what I can do for you. I really don't mind putting my finger in the edge of a diaper to test if it needs to be changed, not knowing what type of matter will be on it when it comes out. I don't feel that I need sleep anymore, I am at your beck and call, whether it is to burp you, change your diaper, give you a bath (addy) or rub you back, make you dinner (Mommy), let me know, I will be your pillar of strength and pillow of comfort.

To My Ladies

To my Wife and Daughter:
I woke up earlier than you did this morning, I just had to take a photo of how beautiful both of you looked, although I didn't want to leave the Mommy, Addy, Daddy sandwich. I can't really describe to you how complete my life is now, I feel more selfless each day thinking of what I can do for you. I really don't mind putting my finger in the edge of a diaper to test if it needs to be changed, not knowing what type of matter will be on it when it comes out. I don't feel that I need sleep anymore, I am at your beck and call, whether it is to burp you, change your diaper, give you a bath (addy) or rub you back, make you dinner (Mommy), let me know, I will be your pillar of strength and pillow of comfort.