I love my kid!

After dinner Kaiden jumped out of his chair to hide from "the monster."

His hiding place was under the blanket on our bed with his hard hat (with a light) and favorite Buzz Lightyear guys.

After that was dance party time! Gabba dance party time to be exact. Each song on his gabba cd is his favorite and he gets super excited at the start of each one.

As the four of us danced around his room without a care in the world, I thought how lucky my sweet boy is. He has (at least) three adults that are pure putty in his hand and will pretty much do anything to make him smile on demand.

Next, he had us all sit in a circle and stand up one by one to play balloon catch.

Then he ran to get his leftover grapes from dinner and laid out a bath mat for picnic time. He made us all meals on his grill and we all sat together to eat!

While he had us in a circle, he took advantage and had his daddy read him lots of books. There's nothing cuter than a daddy lying down reading to his baby as he's on his tummy with his legs in the air, ankles crossed and purely engaged. Love it!

Last, but surely not least, him and daddy ended the night with "dragon warrior nerve attack" wrestling. =)

I love my kid!



Funny Things

Kaiden's imagination is growing. He plays by himself a lot more now and makes his toys interact. I love that!!!

When he woke up yesterday he wouldn't go into the kitchen and wanted me to carry him. When I asked why, he said:

"There's two dogs in there. Two white dogs. They gonna get me. Oh! I scared!!!"

His "thing" the past two days has been:

"What I do at school today?"

And then we have to ask him what he did at school and he says:

"I don't know!" and then laughs hysterically afterwards. Ha! He's a noodle!

Last night he had a superhero - animal throwdown on his train table. All the his superhero and animal figures were fighting each other, it was hysterical! ...and kind of violent! lol.

At dinner last night Kev told him he had to eat 3 more bites of sweet potato to get dessert. Kaiden kept saying "no one!" and Kev kept saying "no three!" and so he took his first bite and Kev was counting and said "one.." and Kaiden said "yeah, one!" like he was done. When Kev said two more, he said "no, you no count no more!" Our boy tries to negotiate EVERYTHING! ;-)

We were eating lunch yesterday and he held up his half eaten banana and said:

"We share?"

Awww! I said thanks bud and took a bite. When I started to give it back to him he said:

"No. You eat it yourself!" lol.

We were reading the Cat In The Hat one day and it starts off with the kids being bored inside b/c it's raining outside. He puts his head down and starts to whimper and says:

"I so sad! I inside all day!"

and when I asked him if he wanted to go out, he said:

"No! It's raining!!"

It wasn't. lol. But the whole scene was very dramatic. He's a drama llama, for sure!

He literally makes me CRACK UP every single day. I love this stage so so much! Every day is something new!

Happy Friday!

Stage 4 Clinger

So, I'm in the midst of trying to find a semi-inexpensive way to turn my last two years of blog posts into a book. So far, nothing solid.

Going through old posts has brought forth tons of emotion. I literally feel like Kaiden's baby/toddlerhood is all of a sudden being yanked from my death grip. I'm trying to hold on so tight and the universe is not budging. Along with tearing up as I type, I cried on the way home last night. I'm overwhelmed with joy and sadness. I feel like the moments are passing by too quickly and I can't keep up. How do I capture in photos and words how much this boy means to me? I'm convinced it can't be done and I feel defeated.

Along with that, I'm ready to move. Where we are right now is just not home. We have two places that make sense to move: back to Va Beach (the common ground) or to KS, closer to Kev's family. I've imagined our lives in both places and can come up with good and bad for both. I made a pros and cons list and Va Beach won, but the pros on the KS side were heavy (more home for your money and better schools) were just two on that side, and those are pretty big deals, ya know? I feel like it's all on my shoulders to make the absolute right decision and that it will ultimately define who Kaiden grows up to be. I know, I'm a bit dramatic, but it's true. Just thinking about it makes me want to throw up.

So for now, I'm choosing to focus on something smaller, that doesn't make me want to throw up. His books. I want to do one of his first year too (before the blog) but lost all my email updates from that time. =( Anyone still have those? Please please please please!! I'm pretty much obsessed with doing this right now and have started making layouts. I want something I can customize and make my own. I just need to soak up the last (almost) 3 years like.right.now!

I'm clinging. He's growing. My tears are streamin'. If I'm gone for awhile, now you'll know why.

Ahhhh, at least he still likes to snuggle! =)