SoCCeR StAr!

Every morning I have to fight with KADEN to get him out of bed, except on Saturday. Saturday morning is when he has soccer. He lays out all of his clothes the night before and he makes sure we lay out the "soccer socks." You know the ones. They are the tall ones that go all the way to the top of the calf. He seriously thinks he's David Becham.

It was really rainy this week, so the kids played soccer in the gym. They didn't seem to mind. KADEN had so much fun. I was such a proud mom and loved every minute of it.

Poor little REESE wanted to play so bad. Every time the ball got kicked out of bounds she would run as fast as she could and snatch it. KADEN would have to pry it out of her hands. I couldn't do it..I was too busy getting it on camera! She would just run up and down the sidelines with her arms up in the air wanting someone to kick it her way. It was so cute and so sad. She would even try to kick it like her big brother.

Go DiEgO gO!

Last night Brandaan asked Kaden what was on the T.V.  Kaden say's, "Oh...That's a whale."  Then Kaden asks Brandaan what kind of a whale it was.  Brandaan told him that it was a killer whale and Kaden says, "Um...no daddy that's a orcha."  Brandaan and I look at each other like...um is that our son? 

Then today at the bank he asked me what the teller was doing and I told him that she was counting the money.  He then points his finger at the money she's counting and says, "uno, dos, tres, cuatro, cinco, seis, siete..."  When we got back to the office I told him to tell daddy how he can count in Spanish.   Brandaan looks at me like...yeah right!  Sure enough, he counts to ten in Spanish once again.

As much as I would like to take credit for this intelligence, I had no idea.  He watches Diego in the car, but he wears head phones while I listen to my XM.  I really had no idea that Diego was so educational.  Kid tested and mother approved!  Go DiEgO gO!

SwEeT HoMe AlaBamA!

ThE LaST FeW MoNThS...

We moved to my home town of Kamiah, Idaho.  My friends ask what it's like living in this small town.  The best way to explain it is that it's like the movie Sweet Home Alabama without the cute southern accent.  We don't have any fast food nor do we have a single stop light.  

We went to the annual Crab Feed.  I hadn't been since I was in highschool and this was Brandaan's first time.  They serve all you can eat crab and the locals perform.  We were laughing the entire time and Brandaan of course is now itching for his time in the spotlight.  Reese was dancing on our table and clapping her hands while we were unsuccessful at pulling her off the table.  My little girl sure does know how to party!

We're loving the small town life.  Brandaan loves that everyone knows everybody else.  It's such a friendly little town.  The kids seem to be happy.  They love that they get to see their dad so much more.  We put Kaden in a sports club.  He just finished up basketball and now he's in soccer.  After soccer is over he starts T-Ball.  Reese is such a happy little sister as she is forced to watch from the sidelines.  She wants to grow up so fast and can't understand why she can't play with the big kids.  I miss you all and now that we're settled into our new life here in this small town I will be better about updating my blog.

CaCHoW!

Kaden turned three on January 29th.  As you can tell from the pictures he's totally into the movie Cars right now.  I ordered a Cars decorating kit.  It was a 3-D  mold of the famous Lightning McQueen and came complete with all the tools to make this fabulous cake.  I ordered it and paid for the extra shipping to make sure that it got here on time.  You all know my luck and can probably guess that it didn't make it here on time.  I couldn't disappoint the birthday boy that was telling everyone all week that he was going to have a Lightning McQueen cake.  It didn't turn out too shabby and Kaden was more than proud of it.  He topped it off with one of his Lightning McQueen cars.  Yes, we did disinfect it!