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: