Caiden's creations...and more

Oh, how Caiden loves his legos and oh, how I love his creations. Meet Crabby, the crab, Octo, the octopus, and Turd, the turtle. (For the record, I helped build the crab and octopus, but the turtle was all Caiden, and the naming too, of course).

"Mom, check out my turtle. He has a "A-B pattern" on his shell...gray,brown,gray,brown,gray,brown,gray,brown. His name is Turd."

Then later, I overhear this conversation between him and Paige that just about kills me with laughter:

P: "Caiden come here!"

C: "No."

P: "Caiden come HERE!"

C: "No."

P: "CAIDEN come HERE!"

C: "NO! I don't want to play with you! I just want to play with my little Turd!"

(Thankfully, I had already met these creations and knew just what he was talking about. Otherwise, I think I might have been really frightened and worried about his mental state.) Moving on....

Gingerbread wars....girls vs. boys....Personally, I think the girls won, but I might be a little bias.

....and one last thing....JASPER'S BACK! YAY! We (me, Caiden and Paige) are excited to have Jasper over the holidays. I'm sure he will love all the wrapping paper Christmas morning. He already loves the tree. I found him nearly sleeping inside the tree, just relaxing about 3 ft up on the branches. Let's just pray he doesn't knock the tree over....

Ode to my husband

Today is Casey's 31st birthday and therefore deserves a post dedicated to just him. I'm sure this is not at the top of his list, but being married to a blogging girl, he gets it anyway. Today we planned to go skiing but instead he had to go into work and so that has been delayed a few days. So I had the bright idea to wake up before him and make him breakfast, something he rarely gets from me....actually never gets from me. (I know, I'm a terrible wife. But let's face it, he didn't exactly marry me for my gourmet cooking skills or my cheery morning attitude.) However, I feared I would not wake up in time, and so I had to let him know last night "I love you so much that I'm going to get up and make you breakfast before work, but please, if you could, wake me." And to my complete astonishment, I woke up all by myself! Yay for me! So here's to wishing my awesome, hardworking, tolerant, and very patient husband a very happy birthday!

Maybe I should stay in bed....

So today I was feeling really proud of myself because I was up and showered and ready for the day before I even took Caiden to school. Now that might be a normal thing for most moms, but NOT ME. This is a huge accomplishment. No, not huge, more like colossal. I had to volunteer in his class and run a ton of errands which I knew I wouldn't get done after school because I was busy all afternoon, so I made the goal to get it all done before I was due in his class at 10 am. And guess what? I did it. And I was on time too. So after a pleasant visit to Caiden's kindergarten class and feeling like I was Supermom, we head to a friend's who was watching Paige and this is what I find out. "Um...Paige didn't have underwear on today, just her pants." Whoops....maybe I shouldn't get up so early.

NEVERTHELESS, I have redeemed myself (if you can do such a thing after forgetting to put underwear on your child) and caught up on my blogging. Wahoo! The next FIVE, count them...FIVE, posts are new. And now, I'm going to bed....

Are we ready for this?

Well, this has been the first snowfall to stick to the ground and at first I was excited. It feels a lot more like Christmas when the ground is covered in snow. But then the kids went out and played in it and came inside and trampled snow all over the house with their big annoying snow boots and snow clothes, and then I was totally over it and would like for it to leave thank you. And by the looks of it Caiden might be over it too. He went out to jump on the snow covered trampoline and then decided he was freezing, so freezing, in fact, that he couldn't jump off of it (which I know he can because he launches himself off it everyday). And being the mean mom that I am, I would not go get him, (because it was freezing) and so he cried until finally he jumped off and we haven't been outside since. Happy winter.

Caiden's Christmas Program

Caiden's kindergarten class had their Christmas program this past week. I was there early and got a front row seat, but of course he was on the opposite side of the room and the music teacher and camera lady were right in my line view. But I did get a few shots... Caiden (sitting on the floor, white and brown striped sweater)....

All the teachers...Caiden's is on the far right, Mrs. Nash, who I love, love, love....


Afterwards we went to his classroom for cookies and juice and Paige made herself right at home with 2 helpings of cookies and juice too....

Caiden and his best bud Hunter, who is moving this weekend. We are sad to see this little guy go. Caiden and him have become such great friends! The video below is of them singing. I loved this song because they do this cute little dance move with their shoulders. Caiden had been showing me this move all week. It was too cute!

Merry Christmas!

2nd Ward's Christmas Party....Caiden let Santa know what he wanted for Christmas. For the past couple of weeks he has been convinced that Santa is bringing him a Nintendo DS. I can barely handle him wanting to play the Wii nonstop and now he wants something that he can take everywhere??? No thank you. Then, one day last week when I was volunteering in his kindergarten class I heard him tell his teacher (very matter-of-factly) that he was getting Guitar Hero for Christmas. Now, don't get me wrong, I do love guitar hero, but I know Santa pretty well and he's not buying that either. Paige is also convinced that she is getting a pink leapster for Christmas. Since we have a perfectly fine yellow and green one, I'm thinking it's not necessary to buy another for the sake of it being pink. So I'm thinking my kids might have a disappointing Christmas morning...But to my surprise Caiden simply told Santa that he wanted "a lego set". Now that....I can handle.

Happy Hearts

Paige's Christmas program....this is the best shot I could get, but I do love how she is standing next to her best buddy, Adam. I was curious how this might go. Paige has a heck of time singing and dancing at home...but she's not really one for an audience. And I was right. She had some pretty serious stagefright. Not a whole lot singing going on from her, but still so cute. I love to watch my little girl....