When Dad Starts to Become Obsolete

The other day my adoring two-year-old daughter was "reading" me story before her bedtime and I managed to refrain from making one of my frequent silly comments about the book. When she got done, she told me "good job" for staying quiet. She also likes to remind me to "listen to my words" when she tells me to do something. It won't be long now and she'll be walking twenty feet ahead of me at the mall pretending we're not together and not long after that, when the neighbors bring me home again from my wanderings, she'll say, "That crazy old coot? Nope. Never seen him before."

Time flies when your children are aging you.