To think my dd is a sell out!

[Cigarettesandsmirnoff]

Dd is nearly ten months old.

She is obsessed with her dad - calls him 'Gad'. She is yet to utter anything that resembles 'mama, mum'. He plays with her for one hour in the morning then sods off to work returning when she is in bed.

I have to do night wakes because if she realises it's him, she shrieks and starts laughing.

I really enjoy my baby, do baby groups, we read, go park , I crawl round living room chasing her - loads of fun stuff. But when dp is here I don't get a look in

Sat and Sunday are spent crawlng up his legs, on his shoulders, waiting outside toilet or trying to get in bath with him. We have just been out in the car and she spent the entire time gazing at him while he was driving. I really felt a pang of jealousy

Why does she like hm more than me?! I'm well better!

at least I get snotty open mouthed kisses

My DD wasn't like that. She clung to me like glue for her first year. DP struggled to hold her for even 5 minutes! She went through a phase a while ago of wanting daddy to put her to bed but it didn't last long. She loves him to bits though, gets so excited when he gets home and she always wants to help him with whatever DIY job he's doing. She's 2.8yo now.

I would like to say they grow out of it, but they don't. DD is now 16 and still mostly prefers her daddy to me :)
I really let it bother me when she was younger, so much so I insisted on having a second child when she was still tiny... Another daughter just 21 months younger than her sis. She was an attention hungry little madam and never ever let me out of her sight (be careful what you wish for!!)

We also have 2 DS one whom isn't bothered by anyone and the other a Mummy's boy through and through (the spitting image/likeness of DD1) Often he will say without thinking, I love you sooooooooooooo much mummy and walk away from DH whom he was playing with :D
:)

My dd is 18 and a daddy's girl to the core. I think it's enchanting, although it did upset me a bit when she was younger.

Dp once said it was because as far as they were concerned I was like the sun- just always there, completely reliable and warm and comforting and they didn't have to think about whether I was going to be there or not, and he was like the moon- they were never quite sure how much of him they would get on any given day, so he was much more exciting and dramatic.
It made me feel a bit better- for a while.