That Loving Feeling

We had dinner at a fun restaurant tonight called Magic Time Machine with Z (Jacks' BFF)'s family. The waitstaff all dress up like characters (Batman, Cinderella, Captain Jack Sparrow, and our waitress was Poison Ivy), and many of the tables are inside a bus, a crayon box, a sorcerer's hat, etc. The kids got their faces painted and enjoyed playing in the arcade upstairs. It was a pretty cool place, and certainly a change of pace from our usual weekend dinners out.

Jackson and Z are so great together. He is usually a fairly quiet and reserved kid, but she helps him come out of his shell. They pretend and jump and scream and sing and share. Never is he more animated than when he is with her.

And in return, he would do anything for her. Last week, he gave her a flower he'd found on the ground because she said she'd be his best friend if he let her have it. That mattered so much to him that he gave it to her. That same day, he also gave her his chair when all the others were full so that she could sit down, and he sat on the floor. She didn't ask him to (and I didn't ask him to), he just did it so she'd be happy. He has an amazing heart, that one.

There is such love there. You can see it. And boy, do I get a kick out of that. It makes me proud of them for being so good for each other, and humbled that a 4 and 5-year-old can make it look so dang easy. And so heartbroken for them both that they'll be separated when we move. :(