Monday, July 12, 2010

Boy Time

Yesterday, I gave Kaiden and Kev some quality time alone since we are going to be leaving dada for a week soon. =(

They went to go look for some new shoes. Kaiden wanted to bring his "kunkey back pack" with nothing in it. LOL. He was so fricken cute with that thing on! Here he is waiting for his dada to come get him.


While the boys were off doing their thing, Jo and I got some sister time in and did some shopping. While we were out, Kevin sent me this pic of Kaiden having dinner while watching basketball. Oh, ya gotta love boy time! =)

Thursday, July 8, 2010

Cool Like That

We woke up this morning, ate breakfast and read every book in the living room. Yes, some mornings we don't watch gabba! ;-) He's kind of obsessed with his books right now. He likes to read every.single.one.in.one.sitting. and I love it.
I want to point out that he made me change him into his elmo pjs this morning. Last night he opted for a polo and underwear over his diaper for sleepy time. Yes, I said a POLO. ha!

We then got to stackin' and sortin'.
and playin' cards
We also went ahead and got crazy with a game of bowling in the kitchen. The ONE good thing about our kitchen is that its a great place for bowling. Who woulda thought?
When you don't make a strike in Kaiden's World...no worries, man...
just kick 'em down and cheer about it! it's alllll good!
We then went outside to blow bubbles and enjoy our snack

He had a poopy diaper after snack and made me chase him around the yard to check it. ha! He was begging to run up the hill instead of change his diaper, but, of course, I refused. While changing his diaper I could tell he was super tired, so decided to lay him down for a nap at 11, two hours earlier than his normal time. Maybe he's getting on his school schedule finally?? Who knows. But he fought it of course and said he wanted to run up the hill. I told him that we would after his nap.

2:30 rolls around and I hear the munchkin over the monitor. First thing he wants is water. Can you guess the second?
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Yup! To run up the hill! So, that's what we did and he has the grass stains on his shorts to prove it. Then we had lunch and took Jo to work. He ate more when we got home and for the rest of the night was a human garbage disposal. =)

He also practiced some new wrestling moves with dada.

And hid  under our shirts "in our bellies"

My favorite part of the day, though, was after his bath time.

I sat on the toilet, scooped him up in a towel and cuddled him for a bit. When I got up he started screaming something I didn't understand at first.

Turns out he was screaming "sleep on potty!"

ha! That was a first.

He didn't want his diaper or pjs on. He just wanted to snuggle on me wrapped up in his towel.

Do I even have to say that these are the moments that truly melt my heart?

Well, it did.

So, I sat and snuggled. I eventually convinced him to put on a diaper and shirt with a promise of more snuggling in our room on the papasan.

And we snuggled.

And it was great!

Kev and I put him to bed after a bit and we ended the night with kisses and marching.

Oh, you didn't know? I demands we MARCH out of his room when we put him to sleep.

Yeah, he's cool like that! =)

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Red White Blue

Saturday, we went to a small town parade about 20 minutes from our house. We found our perfect spot and gave Kaiden his flag to wave. To our surprise, he had a song about the flag that he learned from school.

Here he is singing Red White Blue just swinging away
Of course, I was a PROUD mama!
He enjoyed the parade quite a bit! He waved at the people on floats, enjoyed some candy, saw horses, firetrucks, motorcycles, oh my! 
He got a lot of little goodies, including this cute hat!
After the parade was done, we headed over to the carnival.
Kaiden played his first carnival game and won his first carnival prize!
And no matter how much I tried to convince him to ride some other rides, he only wanted to ride the "horsey ride" over and over. But his smile was totally worth it!
He even tried to make a run for it to get a free ride! ha ha
We then headed home for lunch and he passed out in the car. Usually when this happens, he doesn't nap that day. So, yeah, he only got a 20 minute nap when he used to 3-4 hours. Needless to say, he was in bed early that night so we didn't get to see fireworks. The next night though, we set some off in the backyard and he said it hurt his eyes. At least he wasn't scared of the sound! =) He enjoyed some of our neighbors fireworks earlier on Sunday and said he liked the colors.
We had a great 4th of July weekend!!

Here are two videos of him singing Red White Blue



I love how he keeps telling us to sing with him in this one. Please excuse mine and Jo's singing! ha!