Kaden's Preschool Graduation

Kaden went to Little Scholar's Preschool with Mrs. Connolly. She was a wonderful teacher. She helped Kaden so much! Here are some pics from May 2010 preschool graduation.

Pledge of Allegance:


Getting the "exact" award from Mrs. Connolly. He was always willing to tell you EXACTLY about anything and everything in his class. If his teacher talked about a whale, Kaden would list a gazillion facts about whales. Hahaha!


Admiring his award:


Singing a cowboy song:



Showing off his artwork. He painted a picture of the earth.


Kaden with the only other boy in his class, his friend Dexter Waterman:


Daddy and Sissy came to watch too! Dad came on his lunch break.


Kaden is such a good boy, and we love him so much. We are so lucky to have him in our family!

Misadventures of Kate

The kids and I went to my parent's house about a month ago. The kids love to help my dad do chores; feed the cows and chickens and gather the eggs (the only kind of chores the actually like to do). My dad handed Kate and egg to carry in the house. He told her to be really careful with it, so she was walking with it above her head. Then she tripped and belly flopped. The egg smashed right by her head, getting egg all over in her hair and clothes. She didn't cry at all but just came walking in the house all egg-drippy. She was quite a funny sight. I snapped a few pics on my cell phone before I gave her a bath. If you look really close you'll see egg on her cheek, in her hair and on the side of her dress. Funny girl!

Kaden's 6 year check up

Kaden had his 6-year check up with Dr. Laks (aka Dr Robin) yesterday. We LOVE Dr Robin!!! Anyway, Kaden is finally making progress on the growth chart. He was 43 1/2 inches tall, which is still in the 10th percentile where he always is. So no biggie there, except for the fact that he's tall enough to ride most of the rides at Disneyland now. Yay! He weighed 34 pounds, which brings him to.... Drumroll.....

0 percentile!

That's right! He's finally actually ON the growth chart for his weight, even if it is just on the bottom line of 0, which has never happened before. He's usually WAY negative. Like negative 15-25%.

Hooray for progress!!!

Nursing school, here I come!

I'm SO excited!!! I just found out this morning that I got accepted to nursing school at GCC/EAC. I'll be starting in August. I've been waiting over TWO freakin' months to find out. Pins and needles, I tell you! It was torture. I can't believe it.
I'm also very nervous. It feels a little surreal. I feel like I still don't know enough. I'll have to do a lot of studying over the summer.
YAY for moving along in my schooling!

Speeding!

I was driving down to Tempe with the kids to visit with my mom. My dad has training for work so my mom came with him. While we were driving, Kaden was watching the speed limit signs.

I heard him say: "5 and 5 is 10."
Then he asked: "Mom, how fast are you going?"
Me: "65".
Kaden: "Mom, is 65 higher than 10?"
Me: "yes"
Kaden: "Mom, you're speeding really big. You need to slow down."

He was adding the 5 and 5 on the speed limit sign. 5 and 5 is 10! haha

Also, Kaden started soccer again. I can tell he's getting bigger, because he's getting so much better at sports. He just liked running around the field last year, but this year, he's doing good. He had his second game lastnight and stayed with the ball the whole game. He kicked it tons of times, and almost made a goal once. It's so much fun to watch him play. I sure do love that sweet little boy. his birhtday is in two weeks, and I can't believe he's almost 6!

Finally... A New Post!!!

Kate turned three in February and she is such a funny girl. In this picture from yesterday, she fell asleep in the car and started drooling. Then the turned her head and her hair stuck to her drool. So funny!

Also, in the same car trip, she had been eating a lollipop that she got from the barber when we took Kaden to get his hair cut. I guess she just dropped it on her car seat when she fell asleep. She was wearing a dress, by the way. When we stopped the car at Taco Bell for lunch and went inside, Kate kept grabbing at her crotch. We told her to stop a bunch of times and told her that it's not appropriate to do that in public. We asked her if she needed to go potty. No. I asked if she was hurting there. She said yes. I thought maybe she was itching from a yeast infection or something. Oh, great! Now we have to go all the way down to the valley to take her to the doctor! Ugh! I even took her in the bathroom and straightened her panties, thinking maybe that's why she was grabbing her crotch. I guess I didn't look close enough. When we were sitting there eating lunch, Kate lifted up her legs, held up her dress and said "look, mom!"

Guess what was stuck to her bum crack??? A half-eaten lollipop! It had been stuck there for at least half an hour and she was all red and chaffed. Poor little girl. It was pretty funny though.

Letters to Santa

Lastnight we wrote letters to Santa. I thought they were pretty cute.

Here's Kate's:

Dear Santa,
I want a pants and shirt. And cents. And a Barbie and a pony. An airplane can go. I'm a good girl, Santa. I want a carpet stack. Two presents.
Please and Thank you,
Kate

No clue what she wants a carpet stack for. She's very informative though. Yes, Kate, an airplane can go!

Here's Kaden's:

Dear Santa,
Thanks for giving all the kids on earth toys, even if we be a little bit naughty. Since I have been a good boy, I would like a roller coaster that goes over the top of our house, which goes really fast, but not too fast that you go flying, and make sure that your elves can build it. And I would please like a Hotwheels jet set, and a drum set, but not a guitar or a microphone, a real one. That's about it.
Love,
Kaden.

Gosh, I hope he's not too disappointed when he doesn't get a roller coaster for Christmas. I don't know how Santa would fit that one on his sleigh, plus it wouldn't fit in our yard. This kid has high expectations. He also drew pictures of what he wants for Christmas on the back of his letter. The very first thing he drew was a picture of a "toy ticking time bomb". Hmmm, that one concerns me a tiny bit, hehehe.

Also, Kaden brought home a note from school today that says "I am thankful for the U.S. Army and Earth. And my Grandma and Grandpa. Both of them. My mom, dad and little sister!" I'm thankful for you, my sweet little ray of sunshine!