Boys

We had another first at our house last Friday night. DA had gone to a friend's house to spend the night so that she could go play ultimate frisbee early Saturday morning with the friend a bunch of other theatre kids. This left DB home alone (with me, John, and eventually JB when he got home from work). She asked if a friend could come over and watch a movie...sure...friends do that all the time. The difference was this friend was a BOY! And not just any boy - one who likes her. He's really nice and polite, and truth be told she probably likes him back a least a little. But this was the first bit of teenage romance her daddy has seen involving her! It was NOT easy for him. The boy had an arm around his little girl! And they were sitting next to each other in the big cushy chair watching the movie - close together.

I went to bed, but it seems that the evening went along smoothly; even after JB came in and did the big brother thing. John was able to relax and leave the kids alone long enough to go out and practice his trumpet. He didn't do any of the things he considered through the years to embarrass his daughters when they finally had boys come over. (He did tell her that all boys are "evil" the next day at lunch.) I was proud of him. He was a calm, quiet, restrained father of a couple of beautiful 15-year-old girls.

Ahhh, our baby girls are growing up!