I was just looking through blog posts and the song "Popular" came on from Wicked. It immediately took me back to the time Kadie and I went and saw Wicked. I can't believe that was over a year ago... Almost a year and a half!
It kind of made my heart sink a little because all of a sudden I feel like Kadie is getting older and grown up too fast.
Did I write about her crush yet? Nope...let me fill you in.
I pull up in front of the school to pick up Kadie. She runs over pulling her rolling backback and stops right outside the car and stares at me through the window with the SADDEST look on her face. When she gets in she starts to cry. I asked, "What's wrong?" Then Kadie (in the highest most sad voice) says, "I will tell you when I'm ready" (sniff).
When we were about home she turns to me and says "OK, I'm ready"
{GULP} I am thinking that maybe I am not ready to hear it...was she in trouble? Did she get bullied? Who is the bully? If it is those same stinkin' kids from last year they will have something coming to them...
Then Kadie (again in the highest most sad voice ever) says, "I wrote a love note and some boys took it away! Do I have to go to school tomorrow? They will tease me!" She was so sad and serious at the same time.
Love note? LOVE NOTE? Kadie wrote a LOVE note? What?
Luckily her friend Natasha saved the day when she stole the note back before the boys read the entire thing.
It said:
"Dear Jack,
I really like your handwriting.
I sort of have a crush on you.
Do you have a crush on me?
Love Kadie
Yes or No?"
Seriously, it was so cute. It was written on a yellow post-it. I wish I still had it to show her when she gets older. And though it was cute, it did scare me a little. Boys? Already? Holy Moly teen years are just around the corner. I do remember first "go-ing" with a boy in 3rd grade. But this really crept up on me.
The thing that bugs me is that I want to slow things down but they just seem to keep speeding up. If anyone figures out how to slow down life {almost to a stand-still} just until I am ready to move to the next phase, please let me know!
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Friday, October 14, 2011
Ne-Five
Reading tonight with the kids...and Crew started saying Ne-Five over and over...
It only took us a few minutes to realize he was saying "Nephi". So cute. I love toddler words.
Crew is becoming quite the talker. He actually doesn't ever stop talking...or eating...or running. He is also very good at climbing and can now "Jump" up on the counter. You know, with the jump and then leg swing move...
Oh yes, and the drawing. He seems to think that saying "pease fishy?" in a cute questioning voice means "please draw with me?" I think it is because I was always saying "Do you want me to draw a fishy?" when we first started drawing as a distraction at church. Now Crew always has a crayon in hand and wants to draw on everything. If paper is present he will go for that first {thank goodness}. He is particularly obsessed with "spidermans" right now which are spiderwebs and spiders of all shapes and sorts. He can spot a spiderweb outside from 10 feet away.
I love my Crew boy.
It only took us a few minutes to realize he was saying "Nephi". So cute. I love toddler words.
Crew is becoming quite the talker. He actually doesn't ever stop talking...or eating...or running. He is also very good at climbing and can now "Jump" up on the counter. You know, with the jump and then leg swing move...
Oh yes, and the drawing. He seems to think that saying "pease fishy?" in a cute questioning voice means "please draw with me?" I think it is because I was always saying "Do you want me to draw a fishy?" when we first started drawing as a distraction at church. Now Crew always has a crayon in hand and wants to draw on everything. If paper is present he will go for that first {thank goodness}. He is particularly obsessed with "spidermans" right now which are spiderwebs and spiders of all shapes and sorts. He can spot a spiderweb outside from 10 feet away.
I love my Crew boy.
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Family Pictures
My friend Winter came out last weekend and was so nice to take family pictures. Actually, it was so incredibly awesome because I have wanted some ever since Crew turned two.
Christmas Card Designing here I come!
Primary
This is our ginormous primary. This picture has about 85% of the children.
The fact that the tiny nursery kids sat for the picture was so much fun. They had no idea what was going on and it just melted my heart when they came outside holding onto their rope with their leaders.
We have our primary program coming up very soon, and I think it is going to be awesome.
Choir
Kadie had her very first Choir performance in the very first choir she has belonged to.
It was at a family owned pizza restaurant in Danville.
We ate pizza, listened to cute kids sing, and Crew and I walked around the block about 20 times.
Uncle Cade and Aunt Morgan came and even brought flowers for Kadie!
All Crew wanted to do was look for "spidermans" all over.
Great job singing Kadie!
Friday, September 2, 2011
2nd Tooth LOST
Laney lost her second tooth! Two bottom front teeth missing now. :)
She also does not know the whereabouts of said tooth again. Just like when she lost her first tooth...she was eating an apple, and then it was gone! This time we know that she swallowed the tooth with the apple bite.
Luckily the tooth fairy still came!
Good job tooth fairy...way to be paying attention.
She also does not know the whereabouts of said tooth again. Just like when she lost her first tooth...she was eating an apple, and then it was gone! This time we know that she swallowed the tooth with the apple bite.
Luckily the tooth fairy still came!
Good job tooth fairy...way to be paying attention.
Thursday, September 1, 2011
School! And some other stuff...
School has started here in San Ramon. I am now the proud mother of a big {tiny} 3rd grader and a kindergartner! It is weird.
Kadie got an awesome teacher. We are so excited. She gives the kids hugs every morning. She started out as a social worker, a profession that pulls at my heart strings a bit. She discovered that she loved teaching through that. Her name is Mrs. Smart...how much better can that get? Kadie is loving school and has already completed a class presentation and learned 4 cursive letters. She loves 3rd grade. She is also doing so great at piano. She has already started composing her own little songs. I think she truly has a talent, and she loves it. We found her "thing". Yay!
Laney has another awesome teacher for Kindergarten. She didn't get Kadie's old Kindergarten teacher, and we were sad about that because we loved Mrs. Young. Laney's teacher is Mrs. Mochizuki...she is Australian born, and has lived all over the world. She seems very structured {good for Laney}, organized and fun. Laney is having over-sensory issues with the ginormous class size. 24 kids...could become 26 through the year. So sad. When Kadie was in Kindergarten she was so lucky to be in a looped class of 10 Kindergartners and 10 first graders. It was so cool to have so much time with the teacher. Her teacher truly knew her. I am hoping among the chaos of a larger class that Laney will be fine. But one full week of her having anxiety attacks is getting me worried. Every night she cries and says "There are just so many kids!" In the morning she does the same. It took me 30 minutes to get her to go into class on Tuesday. We made a star chart, and for every day that she goes into class and is brave {and doesn't come back out of class looking for me and Crew} she gets a star. 5 stars gets her an ice cream cone at the ice cream store, or a prize from the dollar section at Target. I love bribery...hopefully it works...and really it is actually just an incentive because she gets the reward after she goes to class. I feel good about the star chart. :)
Crew is having WAY too much fun bossing me around with no one else here. He started this new conversation thing where he starts out with "So...mom..." and waits for me to say "What Crew"...then he talks in French or something that sounds like French...although I can usually make out "Buzz, Woody, Cars, Daddy, Kadie, Laney..." He is a cutie. He is constantly asking for kisses, hugs, and saying "I Yuv You _____!" He says everything like it has an exclamation point at the end. He is so enthusiastic.
Josh is back to a busy schedule...I mean wait...He is just the same. Busy. But we came up with a plan where Sunday nights we choose one night that looks a little less busy in his schedule for him to come home and have dinner with me and the kids. It worked this week! Hoping we can keep it up. It is so nice for the kids to see their Dad during the week. He got awesome reviews this last year, I am so proud of him. Senior Manager here we come!
I am busy with projects of course. Just finished wedding invitations for my cousin. I also painted and redid Crew's room and Laney's. On to Kadie's room {painting}, the primary program, Waldron Family Cookbook, and Children's swap! Bring it on September!
Leisa :)
Kadie got an awesome teacher. We are so excited. She gives the kids hugs every morning. She started out as a social worker, a profession that pulls at my heart strings a bit. She discovered that she loved teaching through that. Her name is Mrs. Smart...how much better can that get? Kadie is loving school and has already completed a class presentation and learned 4 cursive letters. She loves 3rd grade. She is also doing so great at piano. She has already started composing her own little songs. I think she truly has a talent, and she loves it. We found her "thing". Yay!
Laney has another awesome teacher for Kindergarten. She didn't get Kadie's old Kindergarten teacher, and we were sad about that because we loved Mrs. Young. Laney's teacher is Mrs. Mochizuki...she is Australian born, and has lived all over the world. She seems very structured {good for Laney}, organized and fun. Laney is having over-sensory issues with the ginormous class size. 24 kids...could become 26 through the year. So sad. When Kadie was in Kindergarten she was so lucky to be in a looped class of 10 Kindergartners and 10 first graders. It was so cool to have so much time with the teacher. Her teacher truly knew her. I am hoping among the chaos of a larger class that Laney will be fine. But one full week of her having anxiety attacks is getting me worried. Every night she cries and says "There are just so many kids!" In the morning she does the same. It took me 30 minutes to get her to go into class on Tuesday. We made a star chart, and for every day that she goes into class and is brave {and doesn't come back out of class looking for me and Crew} she gets a star. 5 stars gets her an ice cream cone at the ice cream store, or a prize from the dollar section at Target. I love bribery...hopefully it works...and really it is actually just an incentive because she gets the reward after she goes to class. I feel good about the star chart. :)
Crew is having WAY too much fun bossing me around with no one else here. He started this new conversation thing where he starts out with "So...mom..." and waits for me to say "What Crew"...then he talks in French or something that sounds like French...although I can usually make out "Buzz, Woody, Cars, Daddy, Kadie, Laney..." He is a cutie. He is constantly asking for kisses, hugs, and saying "I Yuv You _____!" He says everything like it has an exclamation point at the end. He is so enthusiastic.
Josh is back to a busy schedule...I mean wait...He is just the same. Busy. But we came up with a plan where Sunday nights we choose one night that looks a little less busy in his schedule for him to come home and have dinner with me and the kids. It worked this week! Hoping we can keep it up. It is so nice for the kids to see their Dad during the week. He got awesome reviews this last year, I am so proud of him. Senior Manager here we come!
I am busy with projects of course. Just finished wedding invitations for my cousin. I also painted and redid Crew's room and Laney's. On to Kadie's room {painting}, the primary program, Waldron Family Cookbook, and Children's swap! Bring it on September!
Leisa :)
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