Almost every night Will and I lay in bed and talk about our kids. Especially about how sweet Cade is. He does something blog-worthy pretty much every day. I suppose all three of the kids do blog-worthy things every day. I need to start writing those things down!

The other night Carlee and Cade and I went to run a few errands which included returning the Redbox movies. I pulled up in the fire lane in front of Walgreens and told Carlee to go run the movies in. (I was lucky enough to be parked right where the fireman wanted to park his big fire engine- hate it when that happens. I guess they were returning movies too.) So a minute after Carlee got out Cade started to get out. I asked him where he was going. He said, "I wanted to go check on Carlee. I need to make sure she is ok in there and that she isn't afraid being all alone without you or me, Mommy." It was the sweetest thing and just melted my heart.

I love that Carlee and Cade seem to watch out for each other. I hope they do that always. I hope that even though they are 3 years and 4 grades apart they are always close to each other. They have their moments but nothing too terrible. A little bickering here and there. Nothing unmanageable. When one snaps at the other I love to ask them, "Does this mean I get to go home and have a little fight with Daddy? If you two get to fight then it is only fair that Daddy and I get to fight." (Will and I don't fight too often, it's so rare that they can actually remember the times that we have and the topics we fought about- yikes! guilt!) They don't like that and immediately stop whatever bickering they have going with each other. It's humorous to me, but it gets them to quit.

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?!?!