hand shadow bird puppets

tonight, over a riveting meal 

of sloppy joe stackers,

brennan taught his siblings the art of hand shadow bird puppets, 

just as the sun was setting to the west.

everyone was very VERY impressed.

there's nothing i love more than dinner time at the table with my crew.

sometimes it lasts 2 minutes. sometimes it lasts 10 minutes.

sometimes chase cries through the entire meal,

sometimes max will have to go pee three times,

and each time she gets down, chase follows her 

{which means that by the time we coax chase back to the table, 

she is usually getting down again to go for the next time, 

and chase is getting back down to follow.

again.}

BUT regardless of all of that,

they are my very favorite minutes of my entire day.

and it's worth all of the work to get us all there,

just to be there together,

talking and eating at the table.

and i'm going to fight my hardest to keep doing this as my family gets older,

because there's just nothing else i'd rather be doing on a wednesday night than this:).

{missing: daddy. it must be wednesday night.}