Kaden @ five

INTERVIEW:

What is your favorite color?

“Blue”

What is your favorite movie?

“Planet 51”

What is your favorite song?

“you make me dance like a fool..., you know that one?”

(Smile by Uncle Kracker)

What is your favorite sport?

“Football”

What is your favorite snack/treat?

“Umm...my favorite snack is...pretzels.”

If you could live anywhere where would it be?

“here”

Why? “because we are living here.”

What is your favorite drink?

“Lets see...my favorite drink is...sprite.”

If you could do anything for a whole day what would it be?

“That’s easy, I would go to the lego store and buy all the legos.”

What is your favorite thing to do?

“uhh, two things are my favorite, playing with legos and playing the x-box.”

Who is your best friend?

“Asa” (a neighbor)

What do you want to be when you grow up?

“A doctor.”

chicken pox + lego's

Good news NO SCHOOL for a week.

Bad news lots of ITCHING & CHICKEN POX.

Braxton has the chicken pox even though he has all his immunizations.

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Kaden turns 5 on Wednesday, so we celebrated yesterday.

Even though Kaden knew we would be celebrating his birthday, he insisted on having a surprise party, so Evan took him for a little walk around the block and came back in.

**SURPRISE**

We all jumped out.

(Me, the boys, and my parents...no one else could come since Braxton had chicken pox)

For his cake, I made several little lego brownie bites and put them in the shape of a 5.

We built the CITY OF KADEN out of lego candies.

He received lots of NEW LEGO'S and couldn't have been happier.

He has played day & night with them since he got them.

labor day weekend.

Are you ready for some football?

We took all the boys and went to the football game on Saturday.

There was a lot of pre-game activities going on, so of course we joined in on the fun.

There was...

face painting.

a bounce house.

cotton candy.

mini-golf.

The boys had so much fun!

Braxton was involved in every play.

Ethan thought the touchdowns were the best part.

Kaden loved cheering.

(seriously hilarious, I have never seen so much enthusiasm)

Landon loved shaking his pom-pom.

At half-time they had fireworks.

(Landon watched them without crying.)

GO DUKE!

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We spent Monday at Duke Gardens with friends.

We had a picnic.

played football & soccer.

and fed the fish.

We had such a wonderful time.

It was a great labor day weekend and I hope you had a great one too.

class pet.

A pet for a weekend.

Last weekend Braxton was chosen to take home his class pet.

"Hermie"

Braxton was so excited to have a pet for the weekend.

Unfortunately, it only came out of it shell a couple of times.

It was usually ready to play just as I shut off the lights and climbed into bed.

back to school.

A new school year, two new teachers, and lots of new friends.

The first day of school is always exciting.

Braxton started 3rd grade...

and Ethan started 1st grade.

They are looking forward to the memories they'll make, the people they'll meet, and all the new things they'll learn.

Goodbye Summer.

Hello School.

Today was Braxton's and Ethan's last day of summer vacation. So I told them we could do whatever they wanted today, it was up to them.

We SWAM.

We made homemade CUPCAKES.

We went for an ICEE.

And we PLAYED and PLAYED some more.

So, today we say GOODBYE summer vacation and HELLO to a new school year.

Ethan is so excited and has been asking for weeks when school was going to start. He woke up yesterday morning so excited because he thought it was the day. I had to break the news to him that he had a couple more to go. Braxton hasn't been sleeping well, because of the first day of school excitement. They are both looking forward to a new year, a new teacher, and making new friends.

Doggie.

My Doggie, My Doggie

Where ever I go, He's gonna go

My Doggie, My Doggie

My Doggie and Me!

Landon and Doggie go way back. Okay maybe not way back, but they have been together since Landon was born. Doggie was a gift from Grandma Becky. Landon took to him right off.

Where did he get his name you ask? Landon started calling him "Doggie" from the first time he was able to. Not sure why? Since he is a BEAR, but it was so cute. From that time on, he will forever be known as DOGGIE.

Doggie is Landon's best friend. There isn't a day that goes by that they are not together. They have hugged and kissed, talked and listened, slept and played, shopped and dropped. They have done it all. They have a special bond.

A few nights ago we put Landon in bed, gave him his blankie and now Doggie, where is he? We couldn't find him. We tried to put Landon down without him, but it wasn't working. We all worked together, searching high and low, still no Doggie. So we tried giving him a different stuffed animal...."No mommy, No. Doggie, Doggie!" Okay, we searched again. Finally, we found him wrapped in a blanket. Thank goodness!

What is going to happen if we really loose him????