Caden probably took 5 years off my life yesterday afternoon. I am sure he will do this many more times in his life so this was just warming me up for what is to come.
Joe had left for UPS and the kids were ready for TeamKid but we had time to kill before we needed to head out so they were playing in Caden's room. He has a basketball hoop that can go over his door but he likes it on his bed because then it can be moved and Casey can play with it too so that is what they were playing with. They were using a soft small ball and having a grand time. I decide since I have the kitchen clean I will visit with my mom. W are in her living room (and I just get over there too which means my kids have a keen since of radar) when we hear Caden scream. Not just a little scream like he does sometimes when he falls and bumps his knee or head but this gut wrenching scream/cry that causes me to break into a run. I find him on the floor of his room crying beside Casey's tea table chairs (which are not allowed to be in his room because they have already been in trouble for climbing on them) and one of the chairs is knocked over. I pick Caden up who is still doing his scream/crying and he is holding his arm. My mom of course is right behind me so I tell her she has to check his arm because I don't want to have to move Caden or have him look at the arm if it was broken. Thankfully it was just a bruise with a bump so we iced it but he kept complaining of it hurting so I kept an eye on it and he starting using it and eventually he was playing blocks and wanting to go to church and the bump went down. This morning the doctor said it is just a bad bruise and he will be sore but just fine. I asked if Caden learned anything and Caden said "yea we don't use chairs to play basketball!" Casey on the other hand said "We don't climb on chairs or we could break ourselves!!" The doctor found this funny and told me good luck.
I knew these things were going to happen I just was hoping my first scare was going to be be a little later on. I was 6 when I broke my arm the first time. I don't want my kids to be over achievers. They could be more like their father too though who did really crazy things but never got really hurt. Yea I wouldn't mind that at all.
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Growing pains
Really?? It's March already? This year is flying by way too fast and I am not really sure if that is good or not. I am really looking forward to Joe and my trip in a couple of weeks but there are a lot of things I thought I would have done by now that just aren't done but oh well no use in dwelling on that!!
The kids are doing really well. I was ready to pull my hair out last week because Caden has decided it is time to test mommy again. I could really do with out these little phases. He is far too smart for his own good and most of the time he is an angel so when he decides to "see how far he can go" with me I think that might just make it worse. We were at the mall last week with my mom and Grandma (Honey to my kids). Caden and Casey both know the rules. If I let go of their hands they are to stay close beside me and use their inside voices. They usually are very very good at this. Casey will sometimes push the limits but I just need to grab her hand or do the "One!" and she is promptly back beside me. Caden is an EXCELLENT shopper. I mean he should get a gold star for it. He holds things out for whoever we are shopping for and will tell you how beautiful you look or how beautiful the outfit will look on whoever it is for. If it starts to take longer than his little boy limit I just offer him some food and he is back to being happy or will sit and pout a little but that is usually it. NOT SO THIS TIME!
He wasn't bad. Really it wasn't like he threw a fit or anything like that. It was more that he had a little bit TOO much fun. He ran through the racks of clothes (something which got him in a lot of trouble). He got his sister to laugh so hard she screamed (or squealed but to me it is the same thing and I am pretty sure it is the same thing to the other shoppers too). He laughed these LOUD laughs that busted ear drums. He hid in the clothes. Then he was done shopping so he kept asking if we were done yet and when we informed him we weren't he sighed and let his whole body sag like we let the air out of him. Which I know doesn't sound like a big deal but it is a big pet peeve of mine. There was no gold star this time!
It wasn't just the shopping it was with the school work too. He played tricks on me! He pretended he couldn't read some things the all of a sudden out of the blue he started reading these words I had no idea he knew how to read (this I found amusing and was a little in awe of not frustrated at). He would try to take over and tell me what we were going to be doing or tell me when we were done. It was a very tiring week for both of us and I had a lot of people praying us through it.
Blessedly at the end of just about every day he would crawl up on the couch with me and we would read a zillion books and pray together and he would snuggle like he always does.
He seems to have returned to his normal beautifully behaved self this week. He is an amazing kid and I know I have it really easy with him. These growing spurts of independance and seeing where the boundries are are just part of growing up but I am very thankful I have a lot of people praying for me.
The kids are doing really well. I was ready to pull my hair out last week because Caden has decided it is time to test mommy again. I could really do with out these little phases. He is far too smart for his own good and most of the time he is an angel so when he decides to "see how far he can go" with me I think that might just make it worse. We were at the mall last week with my mom and Grandma (Honey to my kids). Caden and Casey both know the rules. If I let go of their hands they are to stay close beside me and use their inside voices. They usually are very very good at this. Casey will sometimes push the limits but I just need to grab her hand or do the "One!" and she is promptly back beside me. Caden is an EXCELLENT shopper. I mean he should get a gold star for it. He holds things out for whoever we are shopping for and will tell you how beautiful you look or how beautiful the outfit will look on whoever it is for. If it starts to take longer than his little boy limit I just offer him some food and he is back to being happy or will sit and pout a little but that is usually it. NOT SO THIS TIME!
He wasn't bad. Really it wasn't like he threw a fit or anything like that. It was more that he had a little bit TOO much fun. He ran through the racks of clothes (something which got him in a lot of trouble). He got his sister to laugh so hard she screamed (or squealed but to me it is the same thing and I am pretty sure it is the same thing to the other shoppers too). He laughed these LOUD laughs that busted ear drums. He hid in the clothes. Then he was done shopping so he kept asking if we were done yet and when we informed him we weren't he sighed and let his whole body sag like we let the air out of him. Which I know doesn't sound like a big deal but it is a big pet peeve of mine. There was no gold star this time!
It wasn't just the shopping it was with the school work too. He played tricks on me! He pretended he couldn't read some things the all of a sudden out of the blue he started reading these words I had no idea he knew how to read (this I found amusing and was a little in awe of not frustrated at). He would try to take over and tell me what we were going to be doing or tell me when we were done. It was a very tiring week for both of us and I had a lot of people praying us through it.
Blessedly at the end of just about every day he would crawl up on the couch with me and we would read a zillion books and pray together and he would snuggle like he always does.
He seems to have returned to his normal beautifully behaved self this week. He is an amazing kid and I know I have it really easy with him. These growing spurts of independance and seeing where the boundries are are just part of growing up but I am very thankful I have a lot of people praying for me.
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