Where's Waldo (Jackie) sleeping

Another night, another version of Where's Jackie. It was very humorous, well, most of the time, to look around the house at my bedtime to find out where in the world Jackie might be. Some nights I'd come home and do my regular look around the bedrooms and tuck everyone in just to make sure everyone is nestled all snug in their beds. Most every night, it would be a chore to find out where Jackie might be. I'd go into the girls bedroom and either find him tucked in with Catherine or with Laura in his contorted way. I have to quietly pluck him up and put him in his bed. Sometimes, he'd be in our bedroom. Most of the time i'd find him sleeping on top of Fenway on the living room couch. That dog is really his dog. Tonight I came back from getting gas and he was sideways on the back yard room couch fast asleep. He is never in his bed at all. More than once i've woken Lyn up in a lessened frantic state asking her where he was. He is always found but there is always a bit of anxiety. It is sort of a game, not to him, to locate him.
I must say, it really is a special time at night when I get to tuck all the little monsters into bed. When I finally get to put him into bed he seems so calm and quiet (for once). For Jimmy, I just pat him on the head. He usually does wake up no matter what time it is and says good night daddy. With Catherine, she is so sweet in her bed. Whats crazy about her is that she usually has a smile on her face. I just push her over and build a wall around the side that faces the floor. She has enough pillow pets that Uncle Patrick has bought for her to protect her from a plunge. From there i give her a kiss on her cheek and tell her I love her. Moving over to Laura I have to get my muscles ready to forcefully push her away from the edge and build a wall of pillows and blankets for the same reason. She has been known to take a toss herself. She had a little bruise on her side from her most recent fall about a month and a half ago. We had to have the doctor to take a look at it because it didnt go away for a bit but no worries at all. Every once in a while I'll give her a kiss, tell her I love her and she'll rumble around a bit and say "I love you too Daddy". I swear that sometimes I give her an extra tug just to hear that.
After this little ritual, I can go sleep a little more comfortable until i hear Catherine slam into the wall or hear Laura or Jimmy talking in their sleep. Lyn says that occasionally I talk in my sleep too.
Just this morning, I was sleeping and Lyn was around up tinkering around before going to work. Jack had found his way into our bed during the night and was kicking me with those fast moving legs. He was half awake so I just stared at him, giving him that fake angry look and asked him who he was. He told me "I'm Jackie". Of course he was. So I pretended to yell at him and he laughed. After a little bit of nonsense I told him I had to go take a shower to get ready for work, he replied that yes I do, because I needed to wash that hair out of my armpits. I wish I could spend all day with them every day. Maybe i'll hire me as a nanny.
I know this might seem like a boring blog post today, but I do think of remembering the bedtime tuck ins in a blog for a long time now. It has to be one of my favorite moments of the day, especially since its such a joy (not) to get them to bed.

Solar system day

The much anticipated day has come for Laura's Uranus project. So exciting to see all the little buggahs who have worked so hard on their projects come forward and show it off. All around the cafeteria were little third graders who had thier planet projects and would read off ten facts to you when you approached and asked about them. It was very cute to hear them, you really couldnt hear them, but they obviously worked hard at it.

Lauras BFF Ava

You know, that Laura reminds me so much of Grammy Franny. There was a girl that was next to her and no one was going over to her and asking her about her planet. She asked me to go over to her because she felt bad for her. Such a nice thing for Laura to say to care about the other girl. Shortly after she read her facts to me her mom showed up so it was nice.