6th Birthday

I think we took more pictures of Cloee than we did of Cade on HIS birthday. But in our defense- he was off doing a million things with all of his friends: playing XBOX, Wii, trampoline, riding bikes, etc

Cade's 1/2 Day Kindergarten Program

Cade had a great year in 1/2 day kindergarten. After lots of praying and talking it over, Will and I have decided to put him in all day kindergarten next year. He is definitely smart enough to go to 1st grade but due to the fact that he is so young we chose to put him in kindergarten again. So from here on out he will be closer to the same age as the rest of the kids in his class.
On the last day of school all the kindergartners put on a program for their parents. They sang the cutest song. I don't know the name of it but my favorite and the most memorable line says, "I have dreams; lots of big, big dreams." I know that Cade will be able to achieve ALL of his 'BIG BIG dreams'!

Cade and Mrs Newberry

Cade with some of his buddies in his class

Singing some songs during the program

Cade and Cloee

Cade and Tyler

I have dreams, lots and lots of dreams

Yesterday was Cade's last day of 1/2 day kindergarten. He will go to all day kindergarten next year. He was certainly smart enough to move on to 1st grade but Will and I feel that in the long run it will be better for him to be a bit older than so much younger than his classmates. Anyways, on the last day of school the kindergartners had a little performance for their families. (Pictures and blog post on this will come when I get a chance) They sang the sweetest song and the first line said, "Big, big dreams. Lots and lots of dreams." I loved the song, if only he could remember it to teach it to me. But it basically said that they are still young but they have lots of big dreams. They asked 2 children from each class what their dream was. One said he wanted to work with Shamu when he grows up; another said she wanted to work at Disneyland. I asked Cade on the way home what his dream was. At first he said that they didn't ask him to tell it in the microphone but then I said I knew that and what would he have said if they had asked him. He was so cute. This is what he said:
"When I grow up I want to help people. Like spamshish (Spanish speaking) people, when they work at the hotels and they have their arms full and need someone to push the elevator button- well I can push it for them on the outside and then when they get in I can go in with them and push the button again for them."
I thought this was so interesting. I explained how it's important to help people at any age and Cade agreed.

Wrinkly Hair

An infomercial just came on Nickelodeon and Cade was fully tuned in. I noticed this and giggled as he stared intently at the flat iron that was being advertised. I said, "Cade, do you want me to buy you one of those?" He said, "No but Carlee might need one. And mom, you need it too. Your hair looks really wrinkly today."

Maybe going to bed with wet hair doesn't make me wake up as beautiful as I think it does!

Spring Tee Ball

Cade played tee ball on the Yankees team this past spring and did a great job. Will coached his team. These pictures were all taken at the last game which was followed by a quick handout of cupcakes and trophies.

Cade and a few of his buddies

Cloee thought she was part of the team

She will wear something on her head for half a second and then she throws it. It's surprising that I got this picture!

SAAAAAA-WIIIIING

Batter Batter Batter!

RUN, Cade, RUN!

Cloee's hanging out with Jennie's parents

Most of the team out on the field

Cloee's gonna give a helmet a try

Boys being boys- they all fight over the ball

Wake up Luke!

I have no idea what's goin' on with Cade's hat

Some of the team

Everyone racing to 'Coach Will'

"Good Game, Good Game, Good Game"

Yahoo! We won! (Doesn't everyone win in tee ball?)

And this trophy goes to... Cade!

Cade and Daddy/Coach

Cloee is devouring a cupcake- if you look closely you can see that she must have dropped it and picked it up again because there are pieces of grass on it. Scrumptious!

Cades first backpack

Before school started I spent almost an entire day at San Tan Mall with all 3 kids. It was torture but we came home with many rewards. Even I got quite a few things for myself- which is very rare. We got new school clothes for the kids and went to all the shoe stores to find them each a few different pairs of shoes. It was a tiring day to say the least.
The greatest part of the day for us was that Cade got a new backpack. His first backpack. His very own backpack. He picked it out himself. Red with a little bit of black. It was one of the very first purchases of the day.
He wore that backpack around the entire mall as we shopped for hours and hours. It was empty and it still had the tags on but IT WAS ALL HIS. And he was ready for his first day of school.
Too bad he doesn't continue to have that same excitement, huh?!?!

The other night I lay in my bed with Cade and Carlee piled on top of me. We were just laying there having a nice talk. Then I told them that I was happy Spring Break had just started and we were going to have over 2 weeks to be together and do lots of fun things.
I said, "I'm sad that I will be gone to New York for the 2nd week of the break, but Daddy will be home with you the whole time." Cade jumped up off me, sat up, and boldly said, "Hey that's not fair, Mom."
I immediately thought he was going to say that it wasn't fair that I got to go to New York and they didn't.
So I asked him what wasn't fair.
He said, "How come you get to say the word 'BUTT' if it's a bad word?"
When I said it I didn't emphasize the word or anything. I barely realized that I had said it until he brought it to my attention.
Carlee and I were laughing so hard. I had to explain to him that I wasn't talking about our bum and I repeated what I had said so he understood it.

Geez, how do kids' little ears hear the things they aren't supposed to?
I don't even want to know what the 'big kids' are saying on the bus. I tell my kids to close their ears to that type of ugly talk but apparently Cade hears it quite easily.
SHEESH!

Odd conversation (one of many)

Mommy: Cade did you eat breakfast at school today?
Cade: Yes.
Mommy: Did you have a cinnamon roll?
Cade: No. I had cereal.
Mommy: You could have had cereal at home. Today was cinnamon roll day and you wanted to eat a cinnamon roll since Mommy didn't make any. So why didn't you get a cinnamon roll?
Cade: Cuz it was skinny.
Mommy: What was skinny? The cinnamon roll?
Cade: Well it was a tiny bit fat too.
Mommy: So you couldn't get a cinnamon roll?
Cade: No cuz I don't like fat things.
Mommy: I don't understand what the problem was. If it was skinny and a tiny bit fat then it should have been perfect.
Cade: No it wasn't perfect cuz then there were only 4 minutes. Or maybe just 3 minutes. Or 5.
Mommy: 5 minutes for what?
Cade: For eating. And then I would have to take giant bites.
Mommy: Oh is there a lady there telling you that there is 5 minutes left and so you need to hurry and eat?
Cade: Well I think she said 4 minutes but she didn't say to hurry and eat.
Mommy: Ok well next time I will bake you some cinnamon rolls ok? And tomorrow there is a sausage sandwich for breakfast.
Cade: What's that again?
Mommy: It's one of those things... Actually don't worry about it. I'll make you one at home.
Cade: OK. Good night Mama.

I swear it's like pulling teeth with that kid to find out anything. I still have no clue why he didn't get the cinnamon roll. I'm guessing that it was small but still too large that he thought he wouldn't have time to eat it all.

Just couldn't stay awake a moment longer

10 Pennies

Today as Cade and I were walking home from the bus stop I asked him what he learned at school. He said he learned that 10 pennies make a diamond. Too cute. (He meant 10 pennies make a dime.)

Nice Shoes and a Pretty Backpack

This is going to be a very quick post- hope it makes sense and doesn't have too many errors. Just need to get this down before I forget it and I have only a few minutes right now to do it.

This morning I was laying next to Cade trying to wake him for school. Half asleep he curled up next to me and we snuggled and talked. He is such a sweetie sometimes!
We layed (Is this not a word? Is it lay, or lie, or lyed or lied? My brain is going to mush at this late hour. Anyway,I just noticed the spell check symbol and decided to try it and it does not recognize the work layed- DUMB! with more research at another time I will find out exactly which one if us is the dumb one!) there and talked for a few minutes and one thing I asked was if school was going ok for him. He said it was in fact going a lot better because he was faster now. I knew exactly what he meant. His teacher has said he takes F O R E V E R to get any work done. It's not because he talks and is off task, it is just because Cade is so dang particular. If he cuts something and the edge isn't perfectly straight then he cuts and cuts and cuts until not only is it now straight but it is half the size it should be because he has taken so much off to try to get it perfect. He is like this with coloring and writing as well. His teacher has been working with him so that he will know it doesn't matter if it is perfect it just matters that it is finished. So according to Cade he is doing better at this.
He then said that a bad thing at school is that he doesn't like sitting by Joshua. (When we walk home from the busstop we usually talk about one good thing/positive and one bad thing/negative that happened at school today.)And then he said Joshua's breath is really nasty (while saying this he crinkled up his nose in disgust and used a sort of nasally tone). Cade was very serious when he said this and was very matter of fact. He said he tried to tell Joshua about his stinky breath and the kid just said, "No it doesn't smell nasty." Cade said to me, "I think it smells really nasty so why doesn't he think it does?"
Then on to a new topic...
I asked him if anyone else sits by him and he said a few names, one of which is a darling girl named Alana. I said, "Oh I like her. Don't you? I bet her breath doesn't smell so nasty. She's a cute girl, isn't she?" And he said, "Mom, she was marrying Gabriel but now she's marrying Gage" (I think that was his name) "but maybe they are just gonna date for a while". He's 5 and in kindergarten!!! I didn't even know what it meant to DATE until I was like very old- GEEZ!
Then I asked him which girl was marrying him. He said he was gonna marry Mommy or Cloee, it was too cute.
But then he said, "I kissed Emma". *giggle*giggle*giggle* (We later found out that either Alana kissed Gage on the nose or Gage kissed her on the nose, but Cade couldn't remember who did it to who. So at least he's not the only kindergarten kisser. Let's not forget that his big sister won the title of Kindergarten Kissing Queen! He must've learned from the pro. Small tangent, sorry.)
"Oh you did?"
"Yeah, on the bus. But Miss Taffy (he calls her that even though her name is really Kathy) says there's no kissing on the bus (with another wrinkled nose as if to say 'bummer, huh Mom?')." Carlee walked in at this time and Cade is still giggling, as am I. Carlee asked why we were laughing and Cade says, "Cuz I kissed Emma on the bus". Right away Carlee started shooting off a million questions right away, just like a nosy older sister would! "Where did you kiss her?!? Why did you kiss her?!?" He says, "I kissed her on both cheeks because she had nice shoes and a pretty backpack."
So that's all it takes, huh? I think I might buy myself some nice shoes and a pretty purse and walk past Will and see how he reacts!!!