Day 7

Started off today by taking Keira to her last Dance Class. She put on a little performance with her classmates in costumes. The story they performed was "Pinkalicious". It was about a little girl who ate too many cupcakes and woke up the next day with pink skin. She did great and it was super cute. After class, we went to pick up my friends Josh and Kieran. (Keira calls him "Smears") They flew in yesterday and stayed at the Aria the night last night. Josh came into town for my buddy Sterling's wedding and Kieran just tagged along so he could visit me. We headed back home to start getting ready for the wedding. I took Keira over to Aliante Casino/Hotel she she could get her hair done since she was a flower girl in the wedding. After that he headed to the Paiute Resort where the wedding took place so I could we could get dressed and take photos. (I was a groomsman). Once the photos were done, the ceremony began. Keira made a path with the petals from Brynn (the bride) and she did PERFECT. I was soo proud of her and she looked so beautiful. The ceremony was awesome and alot of fun. After the Ceremony came the reception. Keira stayed until about 8pm and then my buddy Josh took her home to go to bed. She was tired. (He was ready to leave by then too. Somebody drank a little too much the night before) I was able to stay until about 10 and it was a lot of fun. It was also nice to have a little break, even if it was only a couple hours. One week down, 4 more to go.

Day 6

Today was pretty nice. I didn't have to work. My good friend Sterling is getting married tomorrow and I am in the wedding as a groomsman.  Since the wedding rehearsal was this evening, we both took the day off. I took Keira to preschool a little late and when we arrived her class was outside playing. She was SUPER excited to get to go play. The kids here don't always get to play outside everyday due to the egg-frying heat we get to bake in the summer. Gotta love Vegas in the summertime. I went home and was able to relax for a bit and play some Xbox. I was happy to get the break... until the bulb on the TV shut itself off. It had been acting up for a few days now and after discussing it with Crystal, I made the decision to buy a new TV. When I arrived at Best Buy I ran into a fellow installer at the store who offered to help me move the downstairs tv up and put the new one in its place. I took him up on the offer and before I knew it, there was a 55" LED in my living room. Awesome. After that I washed my car and then headed over to pick up Keira. We then headed to the location of the wedding rehearsal where we practiced our roles for tomorrow. Keira will be a flower girl and as I stated before, I will be a groomsman. Keira did great in rehearsal and I was very proud of her. Afterward we all went to a pizza place for dinner and then headed home for the night. Tomorrow is the wedding. Cross your fingers.....

Day 5

Exhausted... This 5:50am business is starting to catch up to me. I am glad I am off for the next 4 days though I know I will also be very busy. Dropped Keira off at her usual time and I am happy to say that she has finally become a pro at being dropped off. Previously she would hug my leg or cry or both and not want me to leave. She has been doing great now for about 2 weeks straight. I think we owe a little credit to "Sid, The Science Kid" on PBS. Anyway, after work I was able to pick her up a little early today. I was surprised to find her wearing black sweat pants when I arrived. Apparently there was a pee accident during nap time. I was surprised to say the least. This hasn't happened in probably a year and never since she has been attending this new preschool. As for the sweat pants? Yeah, I took her "accident clothes" home to get her some new ones since it has got so hot and never brought the new ones. Oops. Oh-well. Live and learn. When we got home we played a "Memory" game she made at preschool. Each card had a number on it and you have to find the match. She beat me. My memory sucks. And she made sure I knew she beat me. Wonder where she gets that competitive edge from? Hmmm... Keira video chatted with mommy for a bit while I made dinner. Keira also wanted to pick dinner tonight. Bacon, Eggs, and Hashbrowns. Good choice! After dinner we played one more round of Memory and then caught up on Sesame Street. Finished off the night practicing writing "little a's" and then read stories and had a snack. Finally some bedtime songs and she was out within 5 mins. This all must be catching up with her too.

Day 4

Today was for the most part mellow. As I found myself at one point during the day counting how many days were left before Crystal comes home I came to a realization. I am not counting the days due to being unable to handle the additional responsibility, but simply because I miss my wife. Keira seems to be adjusting well even though she tells me at least once a day that she wishes mommy wasn't in Alabama. We are sticking to our routine which I think is helping. When I picked her up from preschool we were able to talk to Mommy for about 5 mins on the phone. We picked up some El Pollo Loco and headed home. After dinner I gave Keira a bath and then we finished "Big Daddy" which we had started a few days ago. I could tell she understood what was happening in the movie because she teared up during the sad parts. Definitely a sign she is growing up. After the movie it was story and snack time. This is the 3rd night in a row she has chose yogurt as her snack. I like the fact she chooses healthy snacks by choice most of the time. We finished off the night with a round of itsy bitsy spider in bed before I tucked her in. Stay tuned....

Day 3

Not too much to talk about today. Had to wake up at 5:50am to make sure I had enough time to get both myself and Keira ready before work. I obviously normally share Keira duties but now its up to me. Luckily Keira can dress herself now so its just basically getting her breakfast and then helping her with teeth brushing/hair doing. (If you can call what I do to her hair "doing her hair".) I try, let's put it that way. The kid has more hair than a Snuffaluffagus. Dropped her off at preschool and then headed to work. Work kicked my ass today. I won't get into details but by the time I was off I was both physically and mentally drained. I picked Keira up afterwards and made my simplest decision of the day which was dinner. Two words: Frozen. Pizza. Luckily Keira was all about it so we had pizza and fresh fruit. After dinner we worked on our spelling and writing lower case letters. Had a break in between to video chat with Mommy which was nice. We both really miss her. We finished our lower case letter writing and then had story time. I would say she is doing pretty good. Thank God for technology.....

Day 2

Today we started off the day with something special. Since I am off on Mondays, I don't have to get Keira to preschool until 9am when her "kindergarten tutoring" begins. I surprised her with a morning trip to the "Dinosaur Park". It's her favorite park but we haven't been there in forever due to Las Vegas being 194 degrees outside every day. Since it was early and still semi cool (90 degrees or so), we went there and played. After I dropped her off at preschool, I went Grocery Shopping. Its amazing how much cheaper groceries are when they are only for 2 instead of 3. It is also difficult to shop for 2 when you are used to shopping for 3. I was also able to get the laundry done and a few other things around the house I had been putting off. I picked Keira up early in the afternoon and we ran a couple of errands (Tilly's and Home Depot) and grabbed dinner at Gordon Biersch. That place is awesome. On our way home we stopped off at another park that we had never been too. When I pulled into the parking lot Keira was SOOO excited. We played for a half hour or so and we also Video Chatted with Mommy on my Cell Phone. It was nice for use to get to see her while we talked. When we got home, Keira had me sit on the couch while she performed a "Circus" for me. She was the ringmaster/clown and Cordy was the Zebra/Tiger. We worked on writing her name with lower case letters before story time followed by bedtime. Busy day.

Day 1

So I decided I am going to try and blog during this time that Crystal is gone and it is just the 2 of us. 5 weeks is a relatively short amount of time compared to what we are in store for come December but since this is my first attempt at being the soul provider for Keira, I thought maybe it would help me keep track of what is going on. There is a very high percentage chance that this will bore most of you so if it does, feel free not to read it. If anything I thought Crystal might enjoy reading this so here goes:

Day 1: Keira and I took Crystal to the airport at 5:30am this morning. After we dropped her off it wasn't but 3 minutes before Keira was sad saying she "missed mommy". I tried to cheer her up and had a little success but not much. We got home and had breakfast and then watched "Mega-mind". The movie was funny and Keira seemed to like it. After that we went to swimming lessons. She is getting sooooo good at swimming. She loves it and isn't scared of the water at all. After that we went to my buddy Cameron's house for more swimming and lunch. He's nephews are in town who are 3 and 5. Keira had a blast. Cam made home made Vanilla ice-cream using liquid nitrogen for dessert. Delish! Just finished our naps now and about to cook dinner followed by bathtime. Overall, I would say Day 1 was a success.