... Or parenthood from the male perspective.

... Or parenthood from the male perspective.

Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Succeeding

Days like today make me think I'm winning. My wife is out of town on business over night and I had an awesome day with my kid. I wasn't sure how it would go. Whenever it is just one of us, bedtime can sometimes end in fountains of tears because we miss momma/daddy so much.
   To make things worse, when she doesn't nap at school during the day the level at which she is inconsolable is well past 11 on a scale of 1 to 10.
   I feel guilty for my approach to the day wondering what all will go wrong.  
   Then we go to the park after I pick her up from school and we spend a half hour running around from swing to slide to teeter totter. Look how awesome she is.  

The Rey shirt and Zita boots add a nice touch. 
   Even at this point, I was worried about the rest of the evening. All my fears were ill-founded because the rest of our evening was just as wonderful.  Dinner was followed by the regular bedtime routine. Then we read a little Captain Underpants and she went right to bed with little coaxing from me.
   As I was straightening up tonight, I realized that she had even cleaned up her loom project that she decided to work on while I made dinner. 
   As I said: winning. But of course, there will always be the opposite days. I'm just glad for days like these where she makes it easy for me to not be an ass.
   A couple more photos from recent weeks just because: