new york state of mind

The other day while I was processing images from Cassandra and Chen’s January wedding in New York City (can you say cold?), I came across a few photos I wanted to post here to highlight a special revelation I had.  When a man becomes the father of girls, his life is forever changed.  Not just because of the wonderful father-daughter relationship or the armory of guns that you get to store and polish while sitting in your creaky rocking chair in the corner of the room, while staring out the window (hehe…yeah), but also because suddenly everything around you becomes…pink.  Dolls, tea sets, barbies and many other “non-manly” paraphernalia replaces the cordless drill, the hammer, the hockey sticks and the TV remote.  This point was underscored for me on my trip to New York City.  I arrived the day before Cassandra and Chen’s wedding and even though it was like -19 (-200 with windchill), the first and only place I really went to was…you guessed it, the American Girl Place.  I didn’t go see Ground Zero, the Empire State Building or the Statue of Liberty…I went to see American Girl dolls.  And with another girl due to join our family in April, it’s safe to say my days of “manly-ness” are long gone…and I”m ok with that, because I love my girls.  :)

I wish I could have taken more photos inside but I wasn’t allowed.  They had (I kid you not) a salon…a salon for the dolls with little chairs and mirrors and “beauticians” who pampered your child’s doll.  Oh and how could I forget about the “animal spa” for the pets of your daughters American girl doll?  God forbid we forget about the doll’s pony.  Emma would of had a blast here…and I kinda did too.

I’ll be posting Cassandra and Chen’s intimate little New York wedding real soon.

God bless and keep loving!