{"id":47620,"date":"2021-01-13T22:40:59","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T03:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=47620"},"modified":"2021-01-25T22:26:49","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T03:26:49","slug":"new-father-brogging-032","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=47620","title":{"rendered":"New Father Brogging, #032"},"content":{"rendered":"
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baby’s first promo<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Recently, my daughter has begun doing something that makes me so indescribably happy: she comes to me and demands to be held by daddy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Since she\u2019s begun crawling, we\u2019ve given her occasional freedom to roam around supervised, obviously so she doesn\u2019t eat dust bunnies or dog fur, and to make sure she doesn\u2019t hurt herself when she inevitably wants to brace against everything, pull herself up and stand, on wobbly feet.\u00a0 But when there are two adults in the room, be it mythical wife or our nanny, I can go do things and let them be the eyes for me while I try to catch up, or grab a quick bite to eat if I\u2019m in the middle of my workday.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lately though, my daughter has begun tracking me down to where I stand, and with determination, she military crawls over to me, and pulls herself on my legs and makes whining sounds until I acquiesce and pick her up.\u00a0 She clearly is wanting to be acknowledged and held by dad.<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve stood in the kitchen while she stood in the room adjacent, and she crawled her way to me which has to be a tremendous amount of effort for one who hasn\u2019t really gotten the hang of proper crawling yet.\u00a0 I\u2019ll spend some time with her in her room, and usually this is where I can kind of relax, dick around on my phone and let her crawl around and play with toys without much concern, because it\u2019s a fairly safe space, but the toys get old really fast, and she\u2019d rather crawl to me and want to play with me instead.<\/span><\/p>\n

Earlier today, I went into the sunroom to get a run session in during my lunch break, and closed the door behind me since I sound like stampeding elephants when I run on the treadmill.\u00a0 I could see out of the corner of my eye while tying my shoes that she was crawling to the door, and fussed when our nanny gathered her up because she obviously can\u2019t come in while I\u2019m running, but it was clear where she was wanting to go.<\/span><\/p>\n

And my heart melts every single time.<\/span><\/p>\n

Obviously, there\u2019s not a day that goes by where my child doesn\u2019t make me happy, but this is the first time she\u2019s shown a modicum of choice and action, and it just so happens to be choosing to seek out dad.\u00a0 I love my kid more than anything in the world.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recently, my daughter has begun doing something that makes me so indescribably happy: she comes to me and demands to be held by daddy.\u00a0 Since she\u2019s begun crawling, we\u2019ve given her occasional freedom to roam around supervised, obviously so she doesn\u2019t eat dust bunnies or dog fur, and to make sure she doesn\u2019t hurt herself … Continue reading New Father Brogging, #032<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[193,192,32],"class_list":["post-47620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-dad","tag-kids","tag-running"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47620"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47661,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47620\/revisions\/47661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}