My new daughter Emma is cute as a button, but I'm man enough to admit that I'm overwhelmed.

Help appears in the form of the angel next door, Shannon Becker, and though she's confident in her maternal instincts,

she seems to have no idea just how drop-dead gorgeous she really is.

I never knew that my type would be cute, pear-shaped, and a whiz with kids, but here it is.

And before we go much farther, I'm going to make Shannon mine.

Hope she knows that ...