Playtime with Ashlynn

Kaden loves to play with his friend Ashlynn. They love to destroy the playroom together.

Kaden's First Day of Preschool

Kaden started preschool this week (Wednesday), and of course I had to take pictures of him with his packpack (that's what he calls it.) He goes three days a week for 4 hours a day. I'm teaching at the same preschool so it works out nicely. I take him with me to work, drop him off at his class, I teach my class and then I pick him up. He seems to really like his teacher and his class so far. I'm still trying to adjust to teaching 3 year olds. It may take me awhile....

Ocean Breeze/Busch Gardens

We took Kaden to Ocean Breeze Waterpark and Busch Gardens last week. We thought that he'd be scared of the waterslides but of course he wanted to go down all of them, even the ones he was too little to go down. They had a pretty big one that small kids could go down with a life jacket on, but they had to go on their own rafts. We (dumb us) thought that meant that one of use could at least hold on to Kaden's raft and go down together. Oh no. The lifeguard threw Kaden on his raft and sent him down by himself. I was so freaked out that Kaden was going to be scarred for life. Little did I know we would be going up those tower of stairs at least 20 more times that day! Busch Gardens wasn't quite as much fun for Kaden. Too much walking and the loud roller coaster really freaked him out. At least we all got to spend the day together!

Grandma & Papaw's Visit

Grandma and Papaw Wells came down for a visit this summer. We went to the zoo, the Virginia Aquarium, Chuckie Cheese (couldn't miss that attraction : ), and the oceanfront. Kaden was so excited to see them and very sad to see them leave.

Ashlynn's B-day

Kaden helped Ashlynn celebrate her 3rd birthday at the Jumpin' Monkey.

Beach Trip

We took Kaden to the beach on July 12th. It was the first time that he'd been to the beach in well over a year. We tried to get him to go out into the water but he didn't venture too far. He was much more content on playing in the sand and flying his kite (that his aunt Suzanne got him at Disney) with Daddy.

Soccer-Spring 2008

Kaden played soccer at FCC last spring since our church didn't have a league for 3 yr. olds. After some of the games, I understood why.... A lot of the games were spent crying, refusing to play, playing with the wrong team or picking flowers on the field. : )

Easter-2008

Playing in the Snow (I think it was in Feb.)

We finally had enough snow for Papaw to get out the 4-wheeler and pull Kaden, Kyle and Kara on sleds. Kaden loved playing in the snow. It was the first time that he'd really been out in it.

5 Months Later....

Well, it's 5 months since my last post-and yes I'm still alive. : ) Quick update for my loyal readers who haven't completely given up on our family site: It's July and we are all living in Virginia Beach. We bought a house (I'll post some pics) close to where we used to live. I finished up my teaching contract with Wayne Twnshp. in May and am probably not going to teach this upcoming year. We've enrolled Kaden in a preschool at a church here. He'll be going 3 days a week for 4 hrs.- as long as I can get him fully potty trained before then. We're working on it and it's finally getting better... Daddy had spine surgery (C6 & C7 fused together) at the beginning of June, from which he is still recovering from, but is doing well. We're working on trying to get the house together and get adjusted to life back at the beach. Kaden's doing well living here with only a few days of really missing back home. It's hard for a 3 year old to understand the distance thing. That's about all I can think of at the moment. I'll try to get pictures on here today if possible!