In celebration of Father’s Day, six very special Valley pops share their proudest moments in fatherhood.

“There are so many proud moments being a father. I think No. 1 would have to be the day he was born, healthy—albeit a little blue—and bringing him home from the hospital. As he has grown to the old age of six, he has developed into a very talkative, bright and sometimes overzealous young boy, which I attribute to good genes and, most importantly, to my wife who at a very early age began reading to him. A close second would have to be when he climbed into our bed in the middle of the night when we he was around two years old, pulled my eyelids open and said, ‘Daddy, I love you.’” —Dr. James Loo of Premier Family Care and father of Nicolas, 6