Harry's Blog

Kitty and her Grandpa, originally uploaded by Harry Neary.

Our daughter is just over two years old but has clearly decided that she is a grown up. She points at other children, often ones a year or two older than her and declares, "Look Dad, a baby."

And that last quote brings up my main point for this post. For the last few weeks Kitty has been calling me Dad. I've got very used to being Daddy or Dadda especially as Kitty's voice¹ is so sweet and angelic.

Now I'm merely Dad. And while she's still the same tiny adorable flirt that ignores her mother's orders and attempts to wrap me around her little finger, something has changed.

Being called Dad makes me feel old in a way that Dadda or Daddy didn't. When I try to point this out to Kitty she just laughs at me like I'm an idiot.

_{¹At least her normal voice, not the one she uses for screeching "my toy" at her twin brother.}