visiting daddy

Ryan went to Rochester, Minnesota for an away rotation 3 weeks ago and will be coming home in a week. It sure has been weird not having him around. We sure miss him. One time when Dennis hit his head and was crying pretty hard for a while, the first thing that came out of his mouth was, "I need to call daddy." After the first week, Dennis was having a really rough morning and crying about everything that he possibly could. Finally when he calmed down he said, "What makes me really sad is that daddy left me and you and Bruno and Buster." The next morning he said, "Hey, Where is that suitcase? The one that was right here?" Me: "Daddy took it with him to Minnesota." Dennis:"I want to call daddy." On the phone with Ryan Dennis said: "Bring that suitcase back."

We decided that a trip would be good for all of us. So we met in Waterloo, Iowa and had a blast! Dennis was so excited to see his daddy that he didn't even fall asleep in the 6 hour car ride. When we got to the hotel room, Dennis turned the heat on, changed the time on the clock, turned on the lights and called someone on the phone before I even sat down. Then he jumped on his bed until we heard a knock on the door! ...and it was daddy!

We played games, swam in the pool, went to a science observatory and really enjoyed being together.




Dennis didn't like his hair standing on end.

Dennis LOVED the circuit board. He had it all figured out.
It was sure good to see Ryan again, and it was sure hard to leave him again. Luckily, we only have one week left.

This past week Dennis has continued to talk about daddy. We went to the zoo and had a brief encounter with another family and as we were walking away Dennis said, "MY daddy is out of town." And, when Grandma and Grandpa rang the doorbell Dennis ran to the door yelling, "daddy, daddy!" Luckily he was excited to see his grandparents too and it wasn't just the mailman.