Momma's Girl...

My youngest daughter is a 100%, confirmed, bona fide Momma's Girl.  This kid won't even give anyone else a break.  I went out tonight with some girlfriends (the second time- not only in a month, but in one week!!!)  my husband, God love him, tried. And tried and tried and tried.  When this girl gets herself worked up, though, there is nothing anyone (but Mommy) can do to help her.
She cries, then screams, then hyperventilates.  She makes any passersby think that she is being brutally tortured with hot irons.  She has done all of this for me, too.  Yet somehow, when she senses that i am gone, she takes it to another level.  she finally fell asleep minutes before i walked in the door tonight sobbing.  literally breathing with heavy sobs in her sleep.  it is heartbreaking.  and mortifying.  she's so stubborn that it drives us crazy.
tonight, she just wanted me to hold her.  she woke up minutes after i walked in (i'm sure smelling me in the air).  she didn't even need nursies to fall back to sleep.  she fell limp in my arms as soon as i picked her tired, sobbing body up.  
it's not that she doesn't love my husband.  of course she does.  she just has this innate need deep inside of her that can only be quenched by her mother.  she is a momma's girl through and through, and i am that momma.  i appreciate the undying devotion that she gives to me.  i love that she is a mommy's girl.  But there are nights (like tonight) when really, having a daddy's girl wouldn't be so bad.