This adorable video shows the moment tot Amelia Batiz didn’t recognise her own daddy after he shaved off the beard he’d worn for her entire life.<br /><br />Footage from yesterday (December 31) shows Amelia’s dad Jeremy, a 32-year-old contracting officer, has donned a beard for most of his adult life, and even his wife Sofia had only seen him without it once before. <br /><br />“I didn’t know that he was going to shave it off that day either,” said Sofia, 36, a professional photographer who lives with Amelia, Jeremy and their son 11-year-old Adyan in Tucson, Arizona. <br /><br />“He just asked me to get the camera rolling on my phone and then he walked out of the bathroom<br /><br />"He just asked me to get the camera rolling on my phone and then he walked out of the bathroom.<br /><br />"It was a big shock for Amelia and for me!<br /><br />"He was trying to do all the things that he always does with her like he takes her out to get the mail with him every day, but she was suspicious.<br /><br />"It wasn't until he read her favourite book to her that she finally caught on, he always reads it to her in this special way, so she twigged."<br /><br />Now the rest of the family are trying to adjust to a beardless Jeremy.<br /><br />"Jeremy always has a beard, he had a beard when I met him so it was a big change for all of us," said Sofia.<br /><br />"He looks ten years younger, my son says he looks like a college student now, my mom said he looks like a teenager."<br /><br />Thankfully Amelia and Jeremy are back to being best chums again, now that she's used to his new look.<br /><br />"Once she realised it was daddy under there they went right back to how they always are, it just took her a while."
