First Day of School...

Yes that is right. I have a daughter in KINDERGARTEN. Today was the day I was dreading...because Kindergarten has been so stressful. It has actually been two years of stressing, because I decided to keep Kadie in preschool one more year although she technically could have gone last year.

I was glad that I expected the worst, Kadie crying, Kadie scared, Kadie shy, worst of all ME CRYING. But to my surprise the day went so good. I held it together, and I was so proud of her! She jumped right in and did everything her teacher told her to try without hesitation. I know she will do great, and I am so glad I waited because she was so ready and excited about it.

She actually got into a Kindergarten/1st grade split class. I am really excited about it. 10 Kindergarteners, 10 First graders...and both get time away from the other age group with the teacher. Which means more one on one time for Kadie and her Teacher. Her Preschool was a smaller group like that and I think this will be great for her!

After her teacher read a story to the class, she put her hand up in the air. What was her question? "Do we get to go to recess now?" All of the parents laughed, and Kadie with her enormous grin, smiled at everyone because she knew she was funny...but not exactly WHY she was funny. Ah Kadie, I will miss her everyday.

Southern California

This last weekend, Kadie, Laney and I drove down to Southern California to visit my friend Winter. I mostly wanted to go to see her little boy Cash. I hadn't seen him yet, and he just turned 7 months. I had to take advantage of a trip before he was walking around. So, she talked me into coming down for the weekend, just me and the girlies. Here is Cash! I want a baby boy now so that I can do his hair in a teeny Mohawk. :)

Winter showed us a good time - taking us to Disneyland even though Cash couldn't really do much, but he was so good the whole time. The girls had fun seeing the new princess show, eating pizza, and they even got to pick out a toy. Kadie later had many tantrums because she apparently picked the wrong toy, and wanted to return it so that she could purchase the original toy she wanted.

We even went to Huntington Beach. The girls had a blast, although it was hard for me to stay patient through tantrums and sassy attitude by myself, I stuck through it.

We left just in time, right AFTER Laney Broke Winter's temple figurine from her WEDDING CAKE, and drew all over her wall with pen. I tried to scrub the pen off, and with the pen came the paint...so I basically made it 10 times worse. I am sure Winter doesn't want a toddler for a while. I am SO SORRY again Winter for all of the trouble...but we had a blast, and Cash is such a cutie! Miss you already. :)

a "MUST" Post

I know you will understand why I had to post this... :)

Daddy's Girls

Josh claims that the girls are both mama's girls. I beg to differ. On the days that Josh spends with the girls, do they stay at home and watch even one show on TV? No! They usually go to the park, go swimming, go to McDonald's, go to the newest kid movie, and sometimes all in one day. I love these pictures of the girls with their Dad.

Climbing Party

My "Sistah" Morgan works at a climbing gym. Because she is INCREDIBLY AWESOME, she scored us a party for Kadie there. Kadie invited her grammy and grampa, aunts and uncles, as well as all BOYS to her party. I'm sorry I only have a picture of Kadie opening her presents, but that is all she did. She opened, she played, she blew out a candle, she ate...but she was WAY to busy and excited to even climb.

Thank you everyone for coming! It was so much fun to have you all there, and see you and your kids climb! We will have to make another excuse to do it again soon. (I didn't post pictures of you and your kiddo's because I didn't know who does or doesn't want me to do that, but you have some pics coming your way!).

Baby Shower

My sister Kylie contracted a growing tummy about 7 months ago, and of course that required a baby shower. It was SO MUCH FUN, with all of us "sisters" there together with our mom.

Kylie got so many cute things for Baby Girl. We made her try a few of them on.

I am so excited for you Kyker! Of course she will be cute, and probably a tiny brunette with the Laney cackle-laugh. Can't wait to meet baby girl!

Let SIX be a SLOW year

Kadie Nicole Waldron is now SIX YEARS OLD! I can not believe that Kadie is six! I mean, seriously...SIX?

This year she will embark on the adventure of elementary school, where friends are made and mean kids are avoided. Except I am afraid Kadie will not avoid them, but try to take matters into her own hands.

She will probably learn to ride a bike without training wheels, and learn to read real books! I just hope that time slows down a little...but deep down I know it will just speed up. I hope that she has a lot of time to experience discovery and accomplishment, and maybe we can keep the disappointments and heart aches to a minimum. I really just hope that there are not many mean kids. I hate mean kids!

My favorite stories/things about Kadie:

Baby: No hair. I remember always having a bow on Kadie's head, and telling people that I was so glad that my baby had hair. Then when I looked back at pictures, I realized she had NO HAIR. And people obviously thought I was crazy. I also miss Kadie's kickstand crawl, she crawled with one foot and one knee...and some people were concerned. But she turned out just fine!

One year old: Kadie making me breakfast. She was more like 1 and 1/2, and we got her this tiny kitchen for Christmas. Every morning when she woke up she would come in my room and tap me saying "Bet-Test". So I would fall out of bed, and follow her into her room where she would make me scrumptious plastic food.

Two years old: going to Marine World, (now Discovery Kingdom). Kadie had a serious lisp at that age, and all morning kept saying "Eh-fant go pee peese" over and over. So finally we thought, well maybe we should take her to the Elephant show. We got a seat right up front, and when the trainer had the HUGE Elephant sit right in front of us, we thought we had the best seats in the house! Until the HUGE Elephant got up and let out a disgustingly GINORMOUS amount of pee, all over! Luckily I was fast to grab Kadie and jump out of the way. She just clapped and said "Eh-fant go pee peeeeeese!"

Three years old, Kadie discovers purses. She had been carrying around "little" things in her hands since she could walk, and now she has a place to put them. I LOVE that she always has a purse with her, filled with little things - although I don't like when the little things get lost and I have to try to find them. So purses are my friend.

Four years old: The girly girl. This was the princess year, anything and everything. She knew that her favorite color was definitely purple and NOT black. She was such a great sister to Laney, and claimed that she taught Laney to crawl and walk. This was the year of her discovering her hidden talent of singing as well. One day on the way home from church, Kadie was singing a song she made up. It took Josh and I a couple of minutes to realize she was singing "No body buckled me uuuuuuuuuuuup!" in a beautiful ballad. So we stopped the car off the road and buckled her right up cracking up about it.

Five years old: Kadie discovers boys. Her favorite friends are ALL BOYS. Brock, Gavin, Colby and Cole. She has excellent taste, and I hope she ends up with any of those 4 boys in the future. I think she has her eyes on Gavin. :)

Six years old: I can tell this will be a year with a little bit of sass. She already asked me today if she looked like she was six. I said "You totally look like you are six Kadie! Why? Do you feel like you are six?" She smiled and said "Totally."

We love you Kadie, and we are so proud of you! You are such a great sister to Laney, and you have such a fun personality. Keep up the creativity and the quirkiness. Happy Birthday you six-year-old you!