SKS

The Sidekick and her Dad are in an airplane right now on their way to Baltimore.

Spouse-the-Reliable-Checker-Inner called to let me know they had gotten to the terminal they would be leaving from on time and in good condition.  I could hear Sidekick Sister in the background shouting something.  Spouse-the-Amused said, "She's watching Mulan on the iPad with headphones.  If I ask her a question, she yells her answer back to me.  Like I said, 'Are you doing ok?' and she belted out, 'YEAH DAD!'"  Oh deary me, that's my Sidekick.

She's also my emotional one.  She cried when she hugged Captain Kindergarten and told him goodbye on our back porch.  Then she got all choked up with me and said, "I'm...I'm...I'm going to miss you Mom.  But I can call you right?  I can call you whenever I want to right?"  There are times where the emotion SKS carries around in that little chest of hers makes me so exasperated I want to bury my head in a pillow for a month.  But that passionate soul makes her love us so much I wouldn't ever have her misplace it.

It's weird to have her gone from me, like I let my teeth travel 1500 miles away for a couple of days.  I'm just not complete without them, or her.  But at least the little gal isn't going under anesthesia.  She's just getting her cast taken off and then turned into a shell.  We should be able to take the cast on and off for the next little while to get her used to moving again.  Once that is accomplished, we should be accessory free for about a year.  Woo-hoo.  I can't wait to see her marching around and bossing her brothers with her own two castless legs underneath her again.  And, oh goodness me, I can't wait for her to be able to use the potty by herself.  Oh the sweetness.

Onward and upward folks.  Life is good.  Onward and upward.