"Ta, da da da da da da"

If read properly this post title (in your mind) should sound like "Ta Da" sung with the following "da's" as notes going up the scale, but said/sung SUPER fast!!! This is something Carter has done since she was about 2 ish....we don't know where she picked it up, but we LOVE it....we ALWAYS get a good chuckle from it! She did it TONS last summer over such little things that she was proud of.....she hasn't done it in a LONG time, but yesterday she let a nice loud and fast "Ta da da da da da da" rip.....I started laughing and looked around to lock eyes with John to share that "smiley eye, so in love with our daughter" look......and OH SO SAD, but not surprising....he wasn't anywhere to be found......we're coming up on the week mark of him working in Wyoming, and although we've settled in to life as the Three Musketeers....we still miss him A LOT....especially Carter.....yesterday ALL day she was SO emotional, missing daddy, wanting daddy.....

 So after bath time, I decided to pull an old trick that worked like a charm for another Daddy's girl, who although is 27 yrs old and has a precious 3 yr old daddy's girl daughter of her own...still misses her Pa somethin fierce, and just wants a nice big bear hug, or golden kisses once in a while!!! When I was young, while my Dad was out of town working he allowed me to choose one of his T-shirts to wear to bed as a night gown so I could feel close to him, it seemed to always work....Soooooo, I let Carter choose one of John's old work T-shirts to wear to bed...of course she chose the "Ice Cream" shirt, once it was pulled over her head she proudly, loudly and quickly exclaimed "Ta da da da da da da da!" SO wish I could have shared that moment with John!

 As most nights, we killed a little time being silly, giving Owen a mo-hawk....dancing on Mommy's bed to the alarm clock radio....making funny faces and silly noises....tickling and giggling, and singing into the fan (come on you know you all still love that distorted fan voice)!!! We just wait, wait, wait and wait some more for the house to cool down, and the sun to fade so that the little people will settle down and comfortably fall asleep!!!

 Owen was passing out kisses....he still does the open mouth slobber kiss, which grosses Carter out so she forces his mouth shut by pinching his jaw closed....thankfully Owen finds it to be a great game and doesn't complain!!! We're all surviving quite well with John out of town....the first day or so are emotionally rough, and hard to get back into daily routine....but everyone has leveled out now.....unfortunately just in time for him to make a quick appearance and upset the apple cart again (we wouldn't trade our precious time with him though!) It feels like Summer is dragging on with him gone, but maybe it's this crazy thick and sticky heat that makes everything move in slow motion.....at least when I look at a calendar I'm shocked to realize we only have 6 weeks left of our "Summer"....ahhh, the life of college students...everything is defined by when school starts and ends....at least we get Labor Day weekend right after school starts, perhaps a camping trip will be in order!!!