It's 10:00 PM. Kai and Nate are on the couch watching football - a dream for Nate!
We have a love/hate relationship with the nights when Kai can't get to sleep. Only at these times can we really have focused moments with Kai, and we cherish them. Some of my favorite most hezellig memories are of the times when Kai has come back down to play after bedtime.
So they're cuddling on the couch as I relive our weekend...driving around East Sac on Friday night to look at Halloween decorations...coming back to the car after a quick grocery run after said drive to find the kids fast asleep in the backseat...taking the kids to the pumpkin patch today, but taking a 1-hr detour into Amador Cty wine country as they snoozed...admiring Kai's attempts to break the ice with kids in the hay wagon at the pumpkin patch by telling jokes (Why did the chicken cross the road?")...vision of my precious little bleary-eyed redhead, carried into the Halloween party by my beautiful husband as Kai and I were just heading out the door...the hurt look and most real tears I've ever seen on Kai's face as he fended off the rule police at the party (aka 5-year-old band of girls)...Kai's joy the first time he tried on his pitcrew costume...watching Kai tenderly hold Nina for the photo at the UC Davis RSA halloween party...Nina's attempts to mimic Kai while painting on our lanai on a beautiful sunday morning...tasting persimmons off of the neighbor's tree while on a wagon walk with Jin, Rachel, Georgie and Kai...admiring the way Nate can find activities to do that engage both kids at once...
Life is good.