My TooTh!

This was the face I got once he discovered his tooth was missing in the morning! LOL It was hil.larious! See, the night of Sept 23, 2009 at about 8pm his mommy pulled it out. Poor guy was barely hanging on! Kaiden fell asleep in my lap in the chair and well, call it an occupational hazard, I was curious and DETERMINED to get this thing out! Didn't take much. He didn't realize it was gone right away. I had to lead him to the tooth on his shelf and then it clicked! He RAAANN to the bathroom and was all upset that I pulled it out! haha What was funny was when he first discovered it was loose I was kidding with him about doing the floss and door trick.. he didn't quite catch on too quickly. I enjoyed every moment of watching him figure it out! We had it all set up and everything.. then he quickly said that HE wanted to be the one to close the door! haha.. yeah, he walked with the door. Yeah, bud, that's REALLY going to work! It was cute and quite hilarious for the mom! I didn't think he would ACTUALLY fall for it! Needless to say, it didn't come out that way. I was upset that my pic didn't turn out. It's all grainy, but it was THE best shot of him being upset that his tooth was gone! Then, of course he thought it was cool that it was out and couldn't wait to put it under his pillow for the tooth fairy.

~sOcCeR tIme~

Kaiden played soccer in the fall again, of course. We haven't switched it up much since he was three! Baseball in the spring and soccer in the fall.. well.. except for this year! We didn't do any sport this spring! :( Kinda sad, but a good break. Been trying to get the behaviorals in order..AND I was in the middle of looking for and purchasing a NEW HOME! We were busy! He didn't seem to miss it. I don't want to burn him out on sports before he's 10! ;) So, I figured if he really bugged me about it, we would do it. I wasn't thinking that would be the case where he usually ends up complaining at one point or another. :\ I was planning on going back to the regs come fall, so I guess I need to hurry up and figure out WHAT we're doing. Some friends are doing flag football..hmm.. I wanted to put the name of his team on the pic too, but, being that I'm getting old, I've seem to have forgotten at the moment. I will have to update later, probably after someone clues me in. HA For this year we changed from NYS(which is really unorganized) to Henderson United soccer. I MUST say, the organizational skills of this league is so much better! I liked the coach and the whole process. We will probably be looking into them again for the fall, if we don't do flag football. Decisions. I will have to discuss it with K.

BaSkIn with the BaRkErS

We don't get as many days with these wonderful people as I would like, but we do cherish our times. These are my bestie, Candice's kids! Kaiden just loves hanging with them! We went to a park close to their house, which JUST so happens to be on the opposite end of the world from us! :( We couldn't possibly get any further apart and live in the same town! I miss seeing them! I miss how me and Candi would spend loads of time together! Growing up stinks sometimes! I'm just glad we still live in the same town, at least! We HAVE had to overcome some out of state times over the years! We've been friends since we were about 17! These parks are wonderful for Vegas summers!

aUgUsT 2009

Ok, this blog stuff is only going to get further behind if I don't start SOMEWHERE!

Here's some more of August 2009! haha compiled some highlights. Kaiden had his last days at Childtime before starting first grade! We loved Ms Shaunte (right) and Ms Becky (left) Ms Shaunte actually started as one of his classroom teachers and then got promoted to assistant director! She was awesome! They were so good to him!

Did some black and whites of Kaiden and Maddie out celebrating Grandma Tama's bday.

Took a self portrait (like we usually do) at Kaiden's ice cream party at the end of Kindergarten! I was so glad I got to go!

First DaY of ScHoOl tradition..ChUcK e ChEeSe'S

I started the tradition of going to Chuck E. Cheese's after the first day of school. We have gone the last two years, Kindergarten and now first grade and I am actually hoping that it follows through for the next few years. It's a special time that he can look forward to, just me and him. We can celebrate the new school year together. Since he begs for Chuck E. Cheese's all year round and we don't go much I figure it's a nice treat. He loves it!

and then with all the tickets-here's what he picked out!

First day of FiRsT grade

Summer came and went. Kaiden started FIRST grade on August 24, 2009. I can't believe my lil boy is so grown up! I've been waiting quite a while for this day in a way.. hah Paying three arms and two legs for daycare was getting to be a bit much. He was so excited to be going to school all day. Now had you asked him even a few weeks before he would have told you how much he loathed it, and I quote,"you just sit there all day".. aww kids.. they catch on so fast;no putting anything past them! But then, it came, the moment of truth and excitement, that brings a smile to every mom's face and warms her heart..in the car, on the way to school on the first day," I'm excited for school". wow. Now, he's great in school academically, but is such a social butterfly that the teachers seem to be hindering his social time when he's at school, so he hasn't liked it all that much, but he tolerates it. So to hear him say he was excited, I got excited. :) My little man. All grown up.

Well, I got half of his teacher. lol She was 8 months pregnant when he started. The baby was born the first week of October so since Oct 1st he had a permanent sub, which I liked and got to meet at Open House, Sept. 30th. She subbed until they went on track break right before Halloween. His teacher was supposed to be back right after track break, but wasn't and he had a new sub. I was a little worried when I found out his teacher was pregnant, that she wouldn't come back and he would be stuck with subs the whole year. I was really hoping that she would be back, but understand totally on the new baby thing. :) She is supposed to be returning after the holidays, so next week. They put off our classes parent teacher conferences until she returns in January, so I'm assuming she will be coming back. The last sub he had I wasn't too thrilled about. She wasn't as organized and with it as the last sub, and quite frankly she didn't have much of a personality either. Oh well, you win some, you lose some. At least it seemed like the kids were continuing on with their regular schedule as if the actual teacher was there. She was working with the subs when she could while on maternity leave, so we were told. Kaiden's progress hasn't seemed to suffer, so I can't complain. I really liked his teacher though and hope that she IS coming back.

Slackin

So, it's been awhile. I'd like to say that I've been vacationing and have been out of the country for the last 5 months, but we all know how likely THAT is for me. I think I just got overwhelmed being that I started a list of everything I needed to "blog" and it seemed like a lot, so I never sat down to get it started thinking, wow, I'm going to need a lot of time, so it gets pushed back. Well, here we are 5 months later and NONE of it got done. To be honest,I threw out the list. hah I can try to give a recap of what's happened the last 5 months, if I can remember back that far. ;)

Ok, so it's been awhile.. yeah, I know.. I think because I had so much to get caught up on I got overwhelmed, especially with everything else going on in our fast moving crazy life, it seems sometimes. I WILL get those blogs I'd planned on blogging.. UP.. but for now I write while I'm at work on lunch because my computer is being fixed. Yeah, fun.. got some viruses and have been without a computer for about a week. It's not been as bad as I thought, going without. haha I've been doing everything I need to at work on lunch or after work. Had I have to go 100% without I'm not so sure what would happen.. haha naw, I've been ok.. So the month of June just FLEW by..

• had the first 7 days all to myself as my son was still with his dad and family in Arizona. That was a MUCH needed ME time! I love that he can spend time with his family and I can live the single free life from time to time. Doesn't happen often so I've learned to really appreciate the time and enjoy it.. this was a record breaker for the amount of time he's been away from me.. 2 weeks and 2 days..the usual is a week a couple times a year.. so this was nice!.. It was great to have him back though.. just wish I got more ME time sometimes.. but most times I don't want to be without my boy.. catch 22's.. gotta love em.


• Finished up our third spring season of baseball.. on to soccer in the fall with a new league.. kinda nervous, but it should be fun!


• One year has passed since my grandpa passed away.. I love and miss him more than ever and can't wait to see him again!


• Had father's days..without my father..haha.. he doesn't like all the fuss and was down on the river.. oh well.. he's a funny guy.. we try not to take it personal.. ha
• Went out to our cabin at the lake to see my grandma and aunt. It was a day trip and was hot, but was so fun and worth it. We don't get to see them very much! We didn't exactly get out there in a timely manner, but I'm glad we actually made it! That too was a long night!

wow.. now it's the middle of July.. I'm suckin at this blog thing anymore these days.. I'm not at home or I'd just start posting everything and all the pics that I have to show. I'm at my sister's boyfriends house babysitting a friend from Arizona's,baby while they all go out. I'm stuck in a house that I don't know, with my boy and am kinda bored. Granted I DO have the internet AND cable, I guess I could watch some more tv.. blah.. seems like today, oddly, that's all we've done. We have been at my mom's all day. She had surgery on her knee and we were helping her today and hanging out. Well, Kaiden turned on the cartoons after we got out of the pool and it seemed we watched a lot of tv already today. I have the week off of work, as the Dr is on vacation so I just take Kaiden to school and pick him up and we hang out. Only problem being that his school is 10 miles or so from our house since it's around where I work so I have to seriously plan out my days before leaving the house incase I want to do anything or go anywhere along the way. I really want to move closer to my work, family and K's school.. working on that, hopefully.. so we haven't been home all day! Kinda sucks sometimes.. so we're just at Matt's now, playin and hangin out some more. I am going to have to get home to finish the blogging so I can update the last few months and add pics of everything. July has gone as follows:

• Celebrated the 4th with the family at my mom's house. We had a bbq and swam. It was fun! We went and watched the fireworks at the park on Paseo Verde that were from the Green Valley Ranch. We had a pretty good view and they were awesome! Maddie wasn't scared at all! She was pretty scared at the ones going off by my mom's house though. Some guy was shooting some LOOOUUDD ones off right across the street.. my mom's bf gave him a talking to.. yeah, they were SO illegal! So, we weren't sure how Maddie would do with fireworks after that, but all was well, and she watched them all. We had a blast and took a lot of pics while we were at the park. I'll have to post those later. It was a really fun night! We didn't get home until almost midnight I believe! Awesome day! I made a fruit salad that was so yummy too... :)
• Spoiled my boy last week and not only did he get McDonald's, that he always begs for and doesn't get.. haha.., he wanted to go bowling, so we went. It was fun.. then as we were leaving, the movie theater was right next door so I thought I would check it out. I've been wanting to see the new Ice Age and Transformers.. so I went in there expecting there to not be one starting anytime soon, and lo and behold they DID..so we went and saw Ice Age Dawn of the Dinosaurs. It was cute, but nothing compared to the first two.. that was a great day, busy and fun!
• This week we visited our friends in town, went to the Lied Children's discovery museum.. some mixed feelings there.. went with the sis and niece and our friends in town and their little boy.. some drama, but it was fun. ;) Just don't ask my sis! ha that was monday, the 13th, yesterday after I picked K up from school we went to my sisters house to watch my niece as my sister was taking my mom to the surgery center for her surgery. We had fun even though I was wiped out and not feeling good.Once my bro in law got home I had to go to scouts and then we went home and watched a movie. We did homework at my sisters so we didn't have to do that once we got home. We watched She's the Man.I Love that movie.It had been awhile. I started not feeling well a few days ago and don't think it's a cold, not so sure on the allergies but may possibly be sinus stuff. I'm sneezing and my nose is always stuffed up. I was really tired on saturday and sunday and haven't really been able to find much energy.. yeah,I'm thinking more sinus stuff. Pretty sure it's not a cold or I'd be worse.. I'm hoping that gets under control so I can continue to enjoy my vacation. So here we are day three of vacation which included helping and visiting my mom and babysitting now for our friends.. I'll update later and hopefully I can get some pics up of what's been going on around here the last few months. I feel like I've left so much out.. yeah, can you believe it? After all this typing how could I possibly DO that??haha.. I'll just mainly post some pics!.. but until then..