Jack's Dream Day

this morning i told jack that his friends were coming to play and so until they arrived, he asked many times "want kids?" i even fed him his lunch at 11 bc i suspected he'd be too excited to eat once there were kids to play with! and i was right...he did force down a strawberry popsicle and a theived biscotti...he must have been that hungry =)
rachel and her 2 boys, andrew and jacob (who i don't think stopped smiling the whole time!) came....and suzanne and her little bethany came (esme was happy to see another girl...though she couldn't quite vocalize this) ...ana and her daniel came (daniel is truly not afraid of anything! i have a feeling that he and jack could get into some proper mischief)...
it was WONDERFUL...i loved girl time....and most of the urchins are at that age when they can play (albeit with saws and hammers and up ladders) and we ladies can sit back and watch and chat....i felt i really had some good conversational moments with everyone....i remember the days early on when i spent most of my time during "play dates" entertaining jack...which was still wonderful but different from being able to have adult time too....
and they all brought food!!!!
(suzanne, i ate 2 burrito wraps with the yummy blackbeans inside probably before you made it to the mailboxes!)
how incredibly blessed we are...
the "kickens" were a little reticent to play however...maybe it was the sheer number of kids...they are usually pretty confident that if jack gets rowdy they could outrun him...but i think they must have felt their exits would have been blocked by more "jacks"...
well, the kids are BOTH asleep and the rain is pattering down...
pete returns tonight to continue building!!! so i just put on a stew....
ground beef and lots of veggies (happily some from the garden...turnips, onions and rutabaga greens....)
josh had a doctor's appointment today...we thought to get scoped from the top down in his intestines...but it was just to "schedule" the scoping...why this couldn't have been done over the phone is a mystery....so we will wait until next month for him to have this done...
he had an entero-scope thing/colonoscopy which showed no signs of crohn's disease...the hope is that this top down scope will show similar results pointing to something other than crohn's which would make treatment more effective than it is presently.
and would allow us all on the same insurance...yipee!
more on that when we know it...
off to snuggle with jack and maybe even dose off.....ahhhhh.....