It's time for tea

When I first heard the news that we were having a girl I was so overcome with disbelief that I had to sit down and I immediately tears came to my eyes. Most of all I am excited that my mom will get to experience having a granddaughter, especially after she has already been through 3 grandsons. (No offense to the fellas after all I have a penis too) I guess we were all so convinced that it was going to be a boy that hearing “you’re having a girl” was a surprise, a total surprise. But before I go on to completely share my thoughts on preparing for a daughter I want to make it clear that it was a pleasant surprise and I am excited to braid hair. The problem lies in the preparation to even attempt to braid hair or I don’t know, have a tea party. After hearing the great news Nat and I were walking through Target and I had an epiphany, I am a dude. There is no question, I am all guy. This hit me while standing in the toy section. I naturally gravitated towards the Transformers and GI Joes. It was in front of Megatron that I explained to Natalie that there are so many toys for boys but not many for girls. As I browsed through the Star Wars awesomeness, I went further to let her know that there was at least twice the amount of aisles containing boy toys as there were girl toys. After noticing that she found that comment quite comical, I followed my wife to discover that there were just as many aisles of girl toys as boys. How did I miss all of this for so many years? How could I not know that there were as many girl toys? So, being excited to have a daughter, I plunged into the girly stuff. I must say that the girl stuff really sucks, Barbie, Doll Houses, My Little Pony, Care Bears, Strawberry Shortcake, and so on and on. Of course I have heard of these things before but this world was much bigger than I imagined. Seriously what is will the Horse fetish? Does every little girl want a pony? Somewhere in the midst of this began the fear, I have no idea how to be a father to a girl. I could handle the boy thing, but a girl is going to be fish out of water. My fears grew when we looked at the books and DVDs and realized the types of girly cartoons that I get to look forward to. The Girl thing is already invading everything. Just today I walked into the closet in the guest room and found a stash of little baby girl clothes. So it has begun. Now that the girls will outnumber the boys in the house I am getting use to the idea of pigtails and tea time. I must say though that I am trying. I even went to Toys R Us and got a Care Bear to visually help me get focused. The good news is I still have some time to get ready or perhaps a few last moments of video games and Monday night football.