When I was a camp counselor at an all girls summer camp, there was a week during the summer set aside for fathers and daughters to come together and bond.
They went horseback riding, made s’mores, sang around bonfires, played sports, and, as I watched them from my lifeguard chair at the pool, I thought…holy shit these guys are fucking hot.
I could never put my finger on it.
They weren’t always fit. Some of them were balding. They told bad jokes and itched their spare tires when they yawned. Their butt cracks hung out when they bent over, and they made lots of excuses when they got tired halfway through powderpuff football, despite all their high school records and accolades, which they’ll tell you about. Lots.
Then I got married, had kids, and I realized…
There’s just something sexy about daddies.
Totally!!!!! I also love how Andy is holding a “Mini-You.” Gigi looks just like her mama!!! How cute!
Thanks!
yes there is!!!
great post!
you’ve no idea how relieved i am to hear i wasn’t the only teenager to think married much older frumpy dads were the hotness sometimes. i am 21 now and it can still get awkward like when i would babysit. special needs dads are the george clooneys of these men lol
That last sentence……FUCKING GOLD.
Totally agree!
i’m so proud tee hee. it’s true too, my brother has autism and i would do his theater group with him and oh my…
The first time I noticed this “daddy effect” was Christmas Eve when my husband got me all hot and bothered by putting together our daughter’s slide on the kitchen floor so it’d be ready for the next morning. Super foxy. And, is it inappropriate if I say that picture of Andy, uhm.. yeah, totally hot. Daddy effect indeed. Good catch, Momma!
I know right!?
And a few nights before Christmas back, Andy was assembling Wyatt’s mini 4wheeler….things got dirty quick.
Totally cute…and hot! I feel the same way about my husband when I see him with our daughter.
I <3 the daddy effect.
Andy is awsome. I love that he is wearing Gigi in a sling!
I’ve always said, “There’s nothing sexier than a man with his kids…or a man doing dishes.”
Purrrrrrrrrrrrrrr….
yep yep!
yeah there is. it’s totally hot… but does it work for mommies?
Yes. When they are breastfeeding. :)
Nothing hotter than a daddy holding his baby girl! OK…. maybe changing the stinky diaper. ;-)
I totally agree. Also, holy cow Gigi looks like you. What a special thing!
Precious post and very precious picture! My husband and I have one child, a very spunky, lovable and hell-raiser of a 3 1/2 year old girl. I wanted so badly to have a boy — for myself and for my husband but am so in love with my Ainsley and of how much she loves and adores her Daddy that I would never for even a split second change what we as parents were destined to have.
Good God it’s so true. I worked for Trader Joes forever and the crunchy dad’s wearing their babies still makes me weak in the knees. Maybe it helps that my dad was a dick?
My hubs and I took our almost 13 yr old shopping this weekend and he bought her her first pair of heels (grey suede booties, super cute). The look on his face watching her face as she strutted the store in them?
Well, lets just say that he got very, very lucky last night. :-)
So absolutely true.
I remeber watching The Holiday and I’d never really given Jude Law a second thought before and then suddenly he’s got those cute little girls and he’s doing Mr Napkinhead and I was all mushy and worked up at the same time. Being a mommy has definately made daddyness super sexy.
I know! That moment made me forget Jude Law is probably riddled with STDs.
OMG. You are so right! Gigi is so freaking adorable, she is a total mini-Brittney! Love it!
yep there is something about a man that isn’t ashamed to wear his oh so adorable daughter in the oh so cute orange/white sling that just makes them all hot in another way!
I love how my hubby is teaching my son to be all manly but OMG when he is with my daughter being all sweet doing girly stuff it just melts my heart!
That pictures is totally adorable! Unfortuntely I don’t really ever feel that way about my husband. He is missing a nurturing gene.
amen!
Hellz yeah! HOT-NESS!
I’ve never thought about it before, but holy cow that picture is too much! I looove it.
That picture is ridiculously adorable. Your baby girl makes my ovaries twirl.
P.S. Is that a giant, mobile Orange Road Cone in a parade? *LAUGH!* That is so Midwest!
PSYCH. It was in Florida, at Disney world.
All our lame parades in Ohio just have dancing corn cobs and road apples….google that:)
She is soo cute. Btw I’m totally addicted to your blog. You crack me up.
Hot daddies rock. Nick reading bed time stories without skipping pages or rolling his eyes is sex on a stick.
She looks just like you and is SOOOO beautiful. I love your blog and I agree- I am never more turned on that when I see my husband with our 2 kids!
Spot on. Do you think guys KNOW they’re sexy when their being all daddy-ish?
Gah! I love this post. And she is freaking adorable.
Agreed. I first discovered this at my first set of parent/teacher conferences when I was 23. (It didn’t hurt that the dad in question was from France, and had a supersexy accent.) But now, with my own husband and our own child….yeah. Totally hot.
I’m with you. My husband is so much hotter now as a daddy, and his level of attractiveness has gone up exponentially with each of our three sons. Though, I’m pretty sure he could raise it further if I could get him to put littlest man in a sling to help me out. You are one lucky mama.
exactly