Daddy Love + the Motherland

It is so not Sunday Funday in this house when Daddy leaves for business a day earlier than the usual Monday.  However, I can't complain *too* much, considering leaving on a Sunday means coming home on Wednesday.  AND, the coming home on  Wednesday part?  Yup, that would be so we can bust outta this joint at the ass crack of dawn first thing Thursday.  We are headed to the Motherland!

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 As excited as we are for our road trip, we still have to endure 3 nights without our favorite guy and for some of us, it is pure torture. 

No joke, she will spend the better part of the next three days doing this...

...and looking for him every morning as soon as she wakes up.  She'll traipse around the house saying, "Da Da, Da Daaaaaaaa, Da Deeeeee," and make the saddest little scrunchie face when she realizes he isn't home.  Quite the love affair, I tell ya. 

As much as she'll miss him when he's gone, it doesn't stop her from helping him get on his way...

We love having him around.  And not just for the help.  Really.  It's the moments like this that just melt my heart.

Actually, I was hysterically laughing as I captured this "tender" moment.  Paul was reading her a Yo Gabba Gabba! book and was speaking in character.  "There's a party in my tummy, so yummy, so yummy!'  Yes, haters, we love YGG in this house and my husband can do a mean Brobee .  

While Paul is gone, Elena and I will be enjoying the last few days of our first Ohio summer.  #notsobadafterall.  Hopefully the weather cooperates so we can squeeze some fun in between the cleaning and the packing. 

We are so ready to wrap up the season in NJ surrounded by our family and friends.  Bring it.