Noelle and Daddy

Lately it's been so nice to see Noelle going out of her way to be with her dad and be interested/obsessed with where he is. She started this newest, and hopefully permanent phase, a few weeks ago when she started waking up every morning when he would leave for work. I would hear the door close and then without fail Noelle would start to cry. Her bed is situated in a way where she can look out the window so the door must have woken her up each time and she would look out and then start crying for her dad. Sometimes she would cry out to me "Where's daddy going" even though she already knows. Other times she would cry for Josh saying "Don't leave daddy, I'm going to miss you". He can't hear this of course so she would then come into my bed and I would explain again how dad is going to come home later after he teaches the kids at school. It's so wonderful, even though sad at times, to see her so wrapped up in her dad. She runs to him most times when he comes home from work now, usually shouting "Daddy, daddy!". And man does Josh love it! He is eating it up at the moment since as most of you know, Noelle and Josh have had a bumpy couple of years with Noelle going in and out of being openly affectionate with him.  

Thankfully we seem to have come to a point where she seems to have leveled off at being affectionate with her dad, wanting to be with him, and going out of her way to include him in her world. She doesn't cry for him anymore when he leaves in the morning, which is a good thing I think because that was heartbreaking. She has continued to be really excited though when he comes home and talks about him throughout the day, asking when he is coming home. Noelle loves all of us being together, this includes big family hugs, all of us laying on our bed watching a show with her, and she loves for all of us to play games together.  She's at a fun age, still difficult at times, but fun. I'll have to write some of the difficult stories soon because they have not been in short supply lately either : )