Birthday celebration

I was in charge of the Relief Society enrichment activity in my ward. It was a lot of work but I think it went really well and we had a good time. I did a purse theme...made little purse invitations everyone to Home, family and "purse"onal enrichment. I found cute little purse bags to decorate with and a poem that talked about purses being like friends we had dinner and a service auction. It is nice to be done with and onto the next project, but it was fun! Here are some of the pics from the night of the event...

Surprisingly good...

I always feel like I am trying to find better snack options for Kaden. He absolutely will not touch any leafy green vegetable, which is hard because I know how important they are. Well the other day a friend of mine suggested to try a spinach shake. I thought yuck!!! Well I had a lot of spinach in my fridge that was going to go bad so I gave it a whirl and to my surprise Kaden love love loved it he kept asking for more and I didn't think it was half bad either. If you make this though you need a heavy duty bib or old shirt if you are feeding it to a toddler.

1 cup frozen berries
1 frozen banana
fill the blender with spinach (I used about 2-3 cups)
And a little whole milk (my friend said you have to use whole milk or it isn't good.) I just used enough to get it to blend well.

Yum yum, seriously try it you will be surprised and it is a tricky way to get your toddlers to eat their greens. I didn't take a picture but it comes out a pretty purple color!!!

Ever done this...

So I thought this only happened on TV or the movies. Nope this is a very busy mom who obviously has too much going on in the day to really worry about laundry. Ok so really I didn't check my whites very thoroughly and I don't think Chris wants to wear pink underwear and socks. Any suggestions. I have tried running bleach through, and this shirt is after the bleach and being washed like three times. OPPS!!!

MONIES!!!

We took Kaden to chuckee cheese this past week and it was surprisingly really fun! At first he would just run from ride to ride, but learned very quickly that with money they move. He would run back and forth asking for monies (oh too early that begins!). I think he had more fun putting the money in the rides than actually riding the rides.
This is my big kid...he is going to kill me for posting this picture, but this is so Chris. This is what I love about him he gets as excited as Kaden and find all sorts of little things absolutely thrilling!

I love also that whenever Kaden sees me pull out my camera he says cheese without me even saying anything...funny what and how they learn!
We still have half a bucket left of coins (monies!!!). Looks like we will be visiting you again chukee!!!

Mr. Independant

We took Kaden to the Children's museum. I was surprised at how much fun Chris and I had! There was much more to see than I thought and the exhibits were so fun. We had to rush Kaden through a lot of it...so I guess that means we will have to go back again, right?
Playing at the water works exhibit...next time I will give him a drink before he just wanted to suck the water off all the toys and drink it when he got the chance...YUCK!

Playing with the trains on the enormous track...

Digging in the rubber dirt and filling the tractors and truck...this exhibit or the water was our favorite!

Family photo...

Exploring the sea life and fossils in the kids play area...

Bob the builder exhibit. Kaden fixed the plumbing to the sink behind us with his handy tools and hard hat...

Ordering his lunch at the kids play cafe like a big person...he also got to cook on the fake but very real stove he thought that was cool. Cooking, grocery shopping and cleaning like mommy does is exciting...right?

Doesn't the cheese lettuce egg watermelon concoction that the little girl made him look tasty?

Shopping and purchasing his own groceries. It was funny to watch him like he knew exactly how it was done. And the little cart, shelves, groceries and small cash registers were so cute!

Life with a toddler...

Do I need to say anything other than a picture is worth more than a thousand words!!!?

Beach bums...

This week has been the law school's spring break and we went and had such a great time!!! We spent some time in Washington visiting grandma and grandpa and then spent a couple days out at the beach house. We had great weather which made it hard to come back home to nothing but cloud cover...hopefully soon the sun will come out!
We ate lunch on the beach, this bird wanted Kaden's lunch but we are still working on the sharing thing...

Kaden loved being outside. It was a beautiful sunny week on the Oregon coast. Kaden thought that this was pretty exciting chasing birds and running from the water as it crashed on the beach!

Taking a walk on Cannon beach, playing near haystack rock.

We had such a fun time, thank you grandma and grandpa for letting us come stay and play!

Escape artist

So the past few weeks I have put Kaden down for a nap or bed and within minutes I hear pounding and crying on the door. It is strange because I never heard a loud thud from him falling to the floor and wondered how is he getting out? The mystery has now been solved! He used to be a great boy to put to bed, now as you can imagine it is a little harder...probably will get worse. I think its time for a new bed, my little boy is getting big!!!

Any suggestions...

So I am not sure whether Kaden is ready for potty training or not. Everyone tells me not to miss the window or it can be harder. However, he is still so little and I have also been told that if they aren't ready that can actually be worse and make it take longer. But knowing all of this, last week he kept taking off his diaper when I wasn't looking if he had gone number two. He is also obsessed with sitting on the potty but doesn't sit for very long, not long enough to be sucessful. Well last week I thought I will be really diligent and put him in pullups we were successful with number 2 in the potty but he seemed like he was going number 1 a lot (too often) and having lots of accidents. I don't think he has made the number 1 connection yet. SO I had decided to give it time and we would try again when he was older. But last night as I was making dinner he tells me "I poo poo" I asked him if he wanted to go to the potty he said yes. We ran and almost made it but not quite. Then today as I am doing laundry I hear him in his room yelling "poo poo" I ran again and we half way made it. I just don't know if it is time to be aggressive or if we kind of keep casually trying? Any suggestions?