Just like Pastor Todd, my wife at I are experiencing a lot of first things in our home.

We have a six-month-old daughter, Riley Elizabeth, and this last week, she began cutting her first tooth.

So the facts and details of that entire experience

have been recorded in triplicate

for the historical aspect of her life.

We will have that in three separate books,

so that if our house burns down, there's one in the state

in Oklahoma somewhere.

And there's also another one in California in a sake somewhere.

So we're covered if that stuff should ever burn.

But I got to thinking about all of the first time things

that I'm experiencing in my life because of my daughter.

Some things that I expected to happen.

Many things I had no idea what was coming.

And as I began to think about that,

I began to think about some of you men who aren't yet fathers. Maybe you're married

and you don't have children yet, maybe you aren't married and you just desire to

have children. So on your behalf as a favor from me to you, I have devised a few simple tests for you to go home and try just to see whether or not you're ready to have children.

This is the closest thing to a direct simulation of

having children that I could muster up. Here's the first step. That's how

a bit the mess test. Take peanut butter and smear it all over the sofas and every curtain in the house.

Now go outside and rub your hands in the wet flower bed.

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