Where's Daddy?

Where's Daddy? This is what I hear all day when Mike is at work. As soon as Caitlyn wakes up, she comes into our bed, and of course asks where he is. From then on, every time she hears someone outside, she starts screaming, "Daddy!!" and sadly I have to explain that no, he is not home yet. Then, if we go for a walk, every guy she sees from far away, she starts waving and shouting "Daddy?" and once again I have to explain that he is not here yet. I swear everyone at Mt. Trashmore heard her screaming for him when we working out and Daddy ran ahead of us. It is so cute, I love it. But I am truly grateful that Mike will not be doing any more deployments. It would just break my heart too much to explain to her that he really wouldn't be coming home for a long time. Not that I enjoyed having him go on two deployments in the past 2 years, but I am grateful that it happened while Caitlyn was young. Now she can have her Daddy all the time and I will never have to have that horrible deployment talk. It just reminds me how truely blessed we are. But I think Caitlyn asking for Daddy is the best thing ever for Mike, because as soon as he walks in the door she runs and gives him the biggest hugs and kisses ever. And I've never seen a bigger smile from either of them.