"A Great Day"

Each day I ask the kids to tell me the best parts of the day (as well as the most frustrating).  Their answers, when you look past the surface answer, provide interesting insight into what is going on.

So today, I asked Noah.  

He thought long and hard about it.  And then piped up,

"Ohh, ohhh, ohhh, I know.  Today I got to be the Bathroom Captain.  So I got to hold the door for everyone when they went into and out of the bathroom.  It is an awesome job."

The best part of his day.  That is awesome...I agree.  Really, isn't that what it's all about?  Being helpful.  

When in life do we lose that simplicity?  That glee over just being helpful?  When being a leader meant helping the littler kids?  When just being useful and opening the door for people (to the stinky elementary school bathroom, no less) was the high point of the day?

But really the best part of the story was that as I was typing this just now, I was having trouble remembering the exact title of his job for the day.  I am on the first floor and he is upstairs.  I was trying to quietly call up the stairs to get his attention to no avail.  Eventually, my calls must have sounded more urgent as he all of the sudden bounded into view...buck naked post-shower.  That image, combined with his, again, pride, over being bathroom captain were pretty hilarious.  (And someday he will hate me for having blogged about it.)

So with that.  Here's Noah.  Classic Noah...wearing, for no reason at all, the Robin mask while playing Bakugan tonight.