Imagination

 I TRY to keep up with who the girls are pretending to be but it changes so frequently I get mentally exhausted.  Lately, they have been "Mary" and "Laura" from Little House on the Prairie...thus I am called "Ma", Daddy is "Pa", Kirby is "Jack" and Baby Sally becomes "Baby Carrie".  They ask me to pretend to wake them up so they can go milk the cows and collect the eggs.  Under Aubrey's bed is the henhouse where they collect all the eggs(balls), and occassionally when I check on them, they themselves become the hens laying the eggs.  We move from one thing to the next and back again.  Typically they become whatever characters are in a movie we've watched or book we've read.  Occassionally, they pretend they are people they admire, and sometimes it's totally random like today I had 2 little girls named "Andy".   I appreciate the silence that the very end of the day brings after the little chatterboxes have gone to bed.  However, I can't help but recall all the great imagination that occured in just one day and feel so blessed to have been immersed in almost every part.