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My friend Julie told me, "for the next year, you are number three, unless you have a dog, then you are number four." While that turned out to be true...except that I had two dogs at the time...the way I like to describe it is that the mother goes through a series of continuous changes, but for the father it's like standing on the tracks watching the freight train coming: I knew everything was going to change, but it all happened at once.

Congratulations. Being a dad is amazingly wonderful and only gets better over the years, and if you do everything right your child will move away and you'll miss their awesomeness deep down in your soul.

Good luck.