Missing Daddy

Brian left yesterday morning to fly to Washington to help his brother drive the Uhaul all the way to Jacksonville. He's been gone for two days and it feels like forever. Yesterday Rexford asked for him a couple of times but today he has asked for him a lot! He is having fun playing with family and we have tried to keep busy but in quiet moments he'll say, "where Daddy go?" and "nobody here" and "daddy helping uncle eric." If he hears a noise he says, "Daddy home" and I have to explain that he's not home yet. He really wanted to talk to him tonight before bed and kept saying, "daddy call back" but we weren't able to reach him because they were in a part of Montana with no reception and Rexford got tired so he went to bed. I told him we could talk to him tomorrow hopefully.

Earlier today he got really mad about something and so I bent down to talk to him and said "I know you're mad." He looked down and I said, "I know you're sad because you miss daddy" and he said, "yeah" and he came up to me and gave me the biggest hug ever. It was really sad but cute too.

We have tried to keep busy so we went to Sea World yesterday and then Aly played with him all day. Today we went to Chuck E Cheese's and had pizza and played games. Then we went to Rexford's favorite place for dinner-Old McDonalds, as he calls it. We're having some fun but we can't wait for Daddy to come home!!!

Rexford on "little shamu" (that's what he calls it)

Rexford and Mommy with the big horse. He is very interested in horses and animals but when we got close to it he wouldn't pet it.

Rexford wouldn't go on this ride by himself so Aly got in with him. It snaps your picture while you ride it.