Back in Minnesota

Tonight I returned to Minnesota after my extended stay back in Michigan. It is getting harder and harder to say good-bye to Kylie when I have to come back here. Being out here wouldn’t be so bad if I didn’t have to be so far away from her. I just have to remind myself that being away from her will hopefully allow me to provide a better future for her.

I have had a lot more exposure to other people within the company out here than I ever would have had back in Ann Arbor, and I know that other people that I have not personally met have taken note of the fact that I am here. I have learned a lot of things in my time out here and though I enjoy my job here more than my previous position back in Ann Arbor, I hope that these next three months go as quickly as the last three seemed to.

In the mean time I will just have to look forward to my next trip back home. At this time I am not sure when that will be and I am sure it will not be as long as this one was, but any time spent with my daughter is precious. So I will just take it day by day, and try to learn and do all that I can to try and provide that better life.

Cheeeese

Over the last few days Kylie has had a lot of pictures taken, with it being the holidays and all. As such a lot of people have been telling her to say “Cheese” before taking a picture. Today Kylie picked up Tiffany’s camera held it up to her face, pointed it at Tiffany and said “cheese”, so Tiffany replied by saying “cheese.” Tiffany then said “click” and Kylie repeated it and then said “cheeeese.” Tiffany said that Kylie even had the camera pointing in the right direction and apparently got a really big kick out of taking a picture. She picks up on things so quickly now, the more I think of it I know there are things that she has learned and picked up on that have never been mentioned here. For instance over this last week while watching a Pistons game I got Kylie to almost fully say “Detroit Basketball”, and that was with her only hearing it twice. She really is like a little sponge, absorbing new information and acquiring new skills all the time. I regret that I cannot be around more due to my current assignment in Eagan, but hopefully it will pay off in the long run and allow me to provide a better life for her.