My kids.....

I really do love spending time with them, but I think the best time spent is when I only have 1 or 2 at a time.  Jaemin didn't get any special time this weekend, but the others did.  I took all 4 of the younger kids swimming Friday afternoon.  Kaelin had a volleyball swim party and it was really hot, so I decided I was caught up enough at work to take the afternoon off and take them all.  We had enough swim passes for all 5 of us except Chase. I guess really that was my Jaemin time because I spent all 4 hours chasing him around the pool.  :)  Chelsi ended up find friends from school there and obviously Kaelin had her volleyball friends.  Chase ended up with friends there as well.  Kinda cool since we never go swimming and definitely not at that pool. They were so tired, but had a good time.

Chelsi had a birthday party to go to Saturday.  I had only met the mom once, so I took her to the YMCA for a little tumbling time with her friends, but I stayed.  It's always a good time to get to know or at least try to get to know some of the other parents.  I'm not very keen on just leaving my kids unless I know the adults really, really well.  I guess I just don't trust people.  Not with my kids anyways.  They're irreplaceable you know.  She and I always have good talks on the way to and from the Y for gymnastics.  This time we just talked about her friends a little more since I got to meet more of them.  They all, of course, hugged her as soon as she walked in.  She is definitely very loved by her friends.

Saturday night there was an indy film premiere.  It was here because they filmed it here.  Since I had never been to any premiere let alone the world premiere (even though it will probably never go mainstream), I wanted to go see what it was like.  It was a scary movie, so I asked Cole and Chase if they wanted to go.  I don't let the girls watch those kinds of things yet and the boys only watch them with me.  We left the house at 10:30 pm for midnight showing.  Got home about 2 am.  They're pretty fun to hang out with.  They're always so different when I just have 1 or 2 of them.  They almost seem more outgoing with me when I have both of them though.  Like they feed off each other a bit.  We talked about the movie the whole way home and laughed a lot.  I hope I get plenty more moments like these. These are my favorites.

One of the other moms at the pool, Friday afternoon, asked me at one point where Kaelin was.  Her daughter couldn't find any friends to hang out with and I think she assumed Kaelin was with her friends.  I saw Kaelin up waiting to go down the waterslide with Chase.  I told her that they generally hung out together.  She thought that was pretty interesting since her son and daughter are the same ages as they are.  I told her how they fight, but they are the closest of the 5 and will always come to each other's rescue.  I hope Kaelin and Chase are always friends like that.

I hadn't gotten to spend much time with Jaemin over the weekend.  Of course, we read every night together, so I guess we have that 10 minutes together alone.  Tonight he decided to read Bee Bim Bop and Happy Adoption Day.  He's really a good reader.  Hard to understand because of his poor speech, but I know what he's saying, so I know he's a good reader.  He is such a sweet little boy and I'm so lucky Korea found us for him.  I thank God for him everyday.  I came to kiss him goodnight before I went to bed, as I do every night on my way to my room.  I could just sit with him and listen to him for hours.  Just watching him sleep.  I guess because I look at him while he's sleeping and really take the time to realize how lucky I am.  He gets mad every so often when he doesn't get his way, but in general you can easily distract him if you just try and he's such an easy going kid, outside of his sensory issues.  I absolutely love his personality.  He has so much.
Thank God for my kids.