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