A day in the life

I have so much blogging to do it's crazy.  But just like everything else in my life - I feel like I'll never catch up.  I'm seriously drowning in endless "to-do's" that never get crossed off the list.  aaaahhh!  Caleb had us listen to this Jim Gaffigan clip on 4 kids and I laughed so hard when he said "you wanna know what it's like when you have your fourth kid?  Imagine you're drowning and then someone hands you a baby."
Anyway - I don't know when I will ever catch up on blogging but I thought I'd just write about today.  Not particularly funny or noteworthy but I thought some day I would like to go back and see what everyone was like on one particular day.  So feel free to skip this one.  It's more just for me.
Frederick today - Freddy has been really good lately.  He's making lots of happy noises and smiling up a storm.  It makes me feel so loved that all I have to do is make eye contact and he erupts into the smiliest smiles.  Today he was sitting on my lap at Kate's house and I felt him be so still and sort of limp and asked Kate if he had fallen asleep and sure enough he had.  No fuss or crying  - he just fell asleep!  I hope this is a new pattern cause that would be awesome.  He doesn't look like my other kids.  He's so fair and skinny faced. (unlike my olive, broad-faced ones)  And is looking like he'll have blue eyes.  And his roots are coming in light too.  Sometimes I think I see some Casey and Anderson looks about him.
Maryanne today - I spent a lot of one-on-one time with Maryanne today and she cracks me up.  She absolutely adores dancing and wearing beautiful things.  She slips into this character that you know she feels beautiful.  Today she had that look on her face where I know she was being Barbie or something.  Totally swept away look.  She gave me a very tight, loving hug and then whispered "say knock em dead"  I said "Knock em dead" and she smiled and said "I will!" and had a determined look in her eyes and danced off.  ???   So funny!!  Then she came back and said "let's hug again"  And after a very dramatic hug she whispered "now say break a leg" so I said "break a leg" and she went off to her dancing again.  She gets overjoyed when discovering something lying around that is pink or sparkly or that she decides is more exciting than what she has on.  It's like it's the best thing that ever happened to her when we agree to let her wear it.  So we change her clothes 50 times a day.
Lucy today -  Lucy spent the morning at pre-school and the afternoon at the cousins and the evening with us.  I went to pick her up from the cousins and she hid because she really just wants to stay there forever.  Tonight when I laid down with her and asked her about preschool she talked non-stop for 25 minutes and gave me a total play-by-play of her day.  (said in record speed with little or no pauses for breath)   "We played the playground and there was this thing that I wanted to play on so I waited for this boy to get off and then I got on and played but then I got off cause it was boring and there was this thing like a telescope to look out and I pretended all the big kid teachers were pirates.....and then we played duck duck goose and when I was it I said no because I was shy....and there is a reading center and the girl read me clifford a dog that is so big and......there is only one big kid teacher that I'm not shy of and her name is neenee and I love her but she wasn't there this day.  maybe she wasn't there because she's shy of me"  then she starts laughing really hard  "haha - no, big kids are never SHY of little kids hahahaha" .. and on and on... and on.  I love her zeal.
Luke today -  Luke went off to school early and came home at 3:10.  I looked through his school work and saw a game of tick-tack-toe and there were three games.  Two with "charlot" written next to it and one with "luke"  I asked him about it and he said he was playing with his imaginary friend charlot (we are reading charlotte's web at night) and that she kept blocking him with her o's and then she'd win.  But then the third time he finally won.  I liked that for some reason.   After family night I took him to cub scouts.   It was a first one so pretty boring with a lot of just going over what scouts is all about.  I seriously don't know how he learns anything at school.  That poor kid just could NOT listen to save his life.  He was drawing words that he heard which is good - but he had no idea what the dude was saying.   I feel for his teachers at school.  He is darling though and so enthusiastic anytime a question was asked (but I would have re-ask it to him in his ear.. cause he had no idea what was going on)  he'd have a passionate response.  He's just so in his own little world.  It takes a lot of energy to keep pulling him back to what is happening in the here and now.  Interesting to see all the little 6 year old boys doing a lot of the same mannerisms when they talk as Luke.  Nothing cuter than a little 6 year old in a scout uniform.
Joey today - he's totally exhausted.  I wish so bad that I could have a clean house for him when he gets home.  He has a big campout and boating trip he's planning this weekend for the priests and teachers and is the bishop and working and still has these 4 kids and messy house and tired wife to come home to. And most nights he somehow musters up the energy to do the dishes.  I sure do love him. Oh we are working hard on being healthy and he's gone from 205 to 189.  I've gone from 170 to 159.  I remember my first two kids it seemed like it was so easy to lose weight but maybe I'm just forgetting.  And being impatient. It's only been 3 months. I need to get to 140.  I'm doing a health challenge now with my friend - she's my life coach and is the boss of me and tells me what to do to be healthy.  It's good cause I have to report to her and 24 other people my "points" every day. 
Oh man I just got super tired.  Maybe this wasn't the best little exercise.  For some reason I thought it would cooler.  Oh well.  Good night.  I sure love my family.  It's neat to be a mom.