First Lessons... ABCs and 123s

First Lessons... 123s and ABCs...

My sweet lil' girl, there is so much of this world that I want to share with you and yet you are not even here!  I think your Mommy is more than a little tired of my trying to use the projector on her tummy for my teaching lessons but I figure I have you as a captured audience, for the time being anyways.

This world is so full of mysteries that are just waiting for the Daddy/Daughter Duo to tackle but we have the rest of your life to accomplish those goals.  I am just a sidekick awaiting his hero to unlock many of the mysteries for me.  While I am sure you will think that I am so full of knowledge, your Mommy thinks I'm full of something else (hehehe), please trust me that you will be teaching me just as much!  What I want to teach you today for your first lesson are your 123s and ABCs.

I am sure that the concept of 123s and ABCs may be a little lofty for you to grasp at this stage or even much too much for you to comprehend later in infanthood, trust me this lesson is easy to grasp.  The lesson is one of wrongs that make a right and the lessons of love...

Hey [baby girl]
One day to get it all right
Two wrong and not enough right
Three words you said in the night
Before we held the fire
High five me brother it's amazing
Her six shooter came out blazing
7 up and coke on the pavement
Ate my heart out daily baby

The one day, the only day, that I have gotten things right so far was the day that I married your mother.  It is one of the only days that joy and love shined light into the darkness in which I had been living in.  I do not, will not, ever allow you to wallow in the darkness that I had led myself into for a myriad of reasons.  I was a lost and scared sheep who had wandered from the flock but your Mom became the shepherd that guided me back to where I was supposed to be.  The Lord knows that I have done enough wrong but He has shown me that I can make things right; in creating you! You are already amazing and I know you will take this world by storm by blazing a path to what you want.  

Hey I love you, hey I need you,

Hey I want you, do you need me too?
You can count on me, when you cannot see
Let me spell it out plain and simple now
When your number's called;

backs against the wall.
Pick you up when you call;

Be there when you fall

This lesson is that Daddy is here for you and I will always be here for you.  I do not know how this connection we have has formed can be so strong even before you came into my arms but know that this is just the beginning of a beautiful bond forged in the strongest of metals and more beautiful that the prettiest of gems.  

I am lucky to have had amazing parents, your grandparents, that allowed me to believe in myself, and that only intensified with your Mother, who has allowed me to chase my dreams.  At times, I feel like a puppy in a spring sun-warmed field who is chasing everything in front of him because of the pure joy that it gives him just to be in the chase.  To me, that is a thought of pure elation and love in that you have no worries of what passes you by and what you pass by is only something to passed on the way to your goal.  I have been blessed with the feeling of a "safety net" so to speak in that I can chase my dreams and I will always have your Grandparents and Mommy to pick me up when I fall. I want you to fall down cause it will only help to show you that I will be there to hold your hand and push you forward.  It is those falls, not your successes, that define you.  The common saying is that it is how you react when you fall that defines you but I believe that it is a path of shattered attempts at dreams that ultimately shape who you are; those are experiences and experience is what you are.  Destruction along your path should not be shunned but embraced as it is those experiences that challenge you to move forward.

I challenge you to stay in the chase... run at full speed, tongue wagging, cause I'm right behind you.

Singing A B C
You can count on me
123
You can count on me

You can count on me
When you cannot see
Let me spell it out
Plain and simple now
When your numbers called
Backs against the wall
Pick you up when you fall
Be there when you call

I do not know how to explain it to you but just the thought of you brings light and joy into my life that can only be sent from above, Hallelujah.  Maybe I am becoming softer as I age but there have been times where the thought of you has brought tears to my eyes.  These tears fall like raindrops and I would not dare shelter myself from them.  These are tears that I never want to wipe away or hide from.  I am having a daughter, I shout from the rooftop, feeling the weight of the world on my shoulders but I don't even notice.  No, nothing at this point matters but you.

Singing
A B C
Add it up, add it up now darling
1 2 3
Run, Run when you're calling
Hey, A B C
Add it up, add it up now darling
1 2 3

I will be here, always and forever.  I will tackle your fears and punch the monsters in the mouth as they present themselves.  I see my role as the Tin Man from the Wizard of Oz and you, my dear, are my Dorothy and I will protect and guide you along this wonderful brick path of life.

Let's run through the field together... Happily wagging our tails and tongues, not paying attention to anything but that which is before us!