hi daddy!

• Lila, you were the special helper today.  I stayed for a couple minutes to watch you sit on the special chair and make the oh-so-important decision on which two friends would sit beside you.  Whenever you're the special helper, you always wear a dress as is it is a very important occasion.
• George, you and I met Sandra and Gigi at Extreme Air Park this morning.  We jumped for over an hour.  Lots of fun.  Sandra warned me not to jump into the foam pit, but of course I didn't listen.  Oh man.  It took me FOREVER to get out.  I was laughing so hard.  They really need to put a little ladder or something in there for the poor old mamas who get stuck.
• Jane, you were home sick today.  You actually had a three hour nap, so that was a minor miracle!  It's hard for you to nap.
• George, you and I went shopping this afternoon.  I let you pick one treat for the family and you chose chocolate milk.  You were a hero when the girls got home from school and saw it.
• Katie, you went to "the village" with your friends after school.  It still seems so weird to me that I have kids who are old enough to go out and hang out with their friends without adults.
• It really looks like spring out there now.  The trees are getting ready to burst.  And the sun even came out for a bit this evening!
• George and Lila, you came with me to watch daddy's hockey game.  His team is in the finals, so he's pretty excited about that.  The jerseys of the two teams were too similar, so daddy's team ended up wearing pink jerseys.  So cute.  Daddy got another penalty tonight, but this time it was for too many men on the ice.  He wasn't pleased.  He wouldn't even smile for the camera!  
• I watched some first time parents with their toddler at the rink tonight.  I enjoyed the amount of care and attention they gave him.  I remember when I was like that.  And now that I have four, I have let soooooo much go, I feel like a different mother altogether.  I suppose that's the beauty in having lots of kids.  I'm so relaxed and it's pretty hard to fluster me.  On the other hand, I wish I was more on top of things sometimes.  But, I also understand which things are worth fussing about, and that most things really don't matter very much at all.  I know what I need to do (or not do) in order to keep my sanity, and I ain't letting go of that any time soon.