Holy shit I'm a father. I'm just now having this moment where I feel excited and humbled and honored to be a dad.

I've been fostering my little cousin for about 4 months now. I love this little girl like I've never lived anyone before, but I never really thought of myself as a dad. I'm her older cousin who is looking out for her.But today my girlfriend brought her dog over for the first time. I was sitting on the floor with Flip (that's her nickname) and when my girlfriend cane in with the dog (he's a siberian husky), Flip got scared and jumped in my lap and started whining.I didn't want her to be scared and I knew the dig was good with kids so I called the dog over and introduced them and I got Flip to pet him and now they're playing with each other.And it's that Flip trusts me so much that really has me in awe like this. I get that it's probably obvious and boring to a lot of you but to me, Flip touched the dog because I said it was okay. Me giving something a green pass took it from being scary, to being something she wanted to play with.And that is humbling. This kid went through a very rough time in her first years of life and now she trusts me to protect her and look out for her.It's exciting because there's so much I want to teach her, and it's also kind of scary because I don't ever want to destroy that trust. via /r/Parenting http://ift.tt/2rTX5LZ