Kade's favorites

Ok, so it's not a secret to everyone that I'm a pinterestaholic.  I love it and the ideas that other people have come up with.  Their ideas have made me creative.  One thing I found last year was a "favorites" list for your child as he grows up.  Every year you ask what his favorites are and see how they change, or don't change, over the years.  I wrote down Kade's favorites last year in book.  This year I thought I would share with the two people that look at my blog.  :)

Kade's favorites age 4 :

color: green & blue

food: spaghetti

vegetable: carrots

fruit: grapes & bananas

toys: trains & matchbox cars

movie: Avengers (this is actually the 70s cartoon of super heroes, but he thinks it's the Avengers) & Transformers (once again the 70s cartoon version)

TV show: Thomas the Train & Curious George

sport: soccer

dessert: Rocket cake ???  No idea where that came from

Ice cream flavor: peanut butter

team: Ole Miss

Clothes: Curious George shirt, Ole Miss gear, and comfety cozies (gray shorts & a worn out t-shirt)

Restaurants: Beagle Bagel & Zaxbys

Place to go: Ole Yazoo & Oxford & Marmie's house (he loves to climb in her pillows on her bed and hide behind them while watching a little Curious George)

Thing to do: play with trains, building forts, playing in the pool, riding in his Jeep, riding his bike, and playing with daddy

These are the answers that I got from Kade.  To be honest, I was surprised with several of his answers, but this is what he gave me.  I would say that I can't wait to see what his answers are as a 5 year old, but I don't want him to grow up anymore.  I love the age where he is now.  He is independent and verbal beyond what I imagined he would be.  He even counts by 10s now and can count all the way to 100 by ones.  :)  Leaving this post with a picture of my guy in front of one his favorite restaurants. 



Cool July night

Katie, Philip, and Jackson invited us over to their house along with several of their neighbors and their kids.  One of the neighbors had this perfect four year old sized water slide and brought it for the kids.  Most of the kids were Kade's age, and were boys.  Needless to say, he had a blast.  It was a perfect night.  It started out overcast and thundering, but ended up cool and breezy.  No rain.  We will definitely have to go back and play with Kade's new friends again soon.  Oh yeah, that reminds me, every time Kade meets new friends he makes you count ALL of his friends and include the new ones.  He likes seeing how many friends he has and says how much he loves them.  Sweet guy.

Kade's pictures...

So, as I've mentioned before, Kade has really started to love taking pictures of stuff with my camera in my phone and my regular camera.  I have to say that he's quite good, and has some artisticness to them.  One day I will figure out how to get my pictures from my phone on to the blog, but until then I'll just stick with the camera.  Here are two he took...

Children's museum

Yesterday we met Katie, Jackson, Marmie, Daddy Bobby, Silas, and Sunny at the Children's Museum.  Kade had a blast with his cousin and Silas.  They took turns fishing, shopping for fruit, climbing, well you get the picture.  I'll explain in the pictures. 

Kade, Silas, and Jackson all playing with the John Deere and makin the balls go up & down the shute.



Time to milk the cow.  It REALLY does, except it's water.  But still...



Kade & Silas becoming food and entering the mouth.  This shows how food enters/leaves your body.  With the noises your body makes.  YUCK!

This is the "food" leaving the body.  See the potty?

Jackson's turn

Kade's doing pull ups with barely any help...

Ok, so maybe he was climbing the wall a little & daddy bobby was helping.  A Lot.

Kade's in the top of the state capital.

This is the "I'm over taking pictures" face.

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Kade tried to be the velcro by himself, but was getting no where.  So, the little guy helping got up there and put him up high.

This is my favorite picture.  Kade hated this because he couldn't get down by himself.

I love this guy!

"Look, I'm a skunk!"

"And a spider."

4th of July part 2

On Wednesday we had more plans with Philip's family.  This time it was the Atkinson side.  We started our morning out by going to our neighborhood pool, took a nap, and then headed to Benton.  We made a quick stop at Ole Yazoo to see the progress made on the cabin.  Then we headed over to Aunt Rose's house to play, swim, and eat with cousins.  Kade spent a lot of time playing with sweet Will and Bess.  They made sure he knew where all the toys were and even helped him build a tower with the Lincoln Logs.  Lots of fun at the Anderson's.

Super hero style

I'm not surprised that he found the transformer.  ha  :)

Time for some swimming with daddy.

the loves of my life

Even Lovie helped with the Lincoln Logs

sweet cousins

4th of July part 1

Most 4th of Julys we sit in the driveway and watch our neighbors shoot their fireworks.  Not this year.  We went to family get-togethers this year.  TWO. 

On Tuesday we went to Shellye and Hunter's for food, fun, and fireworks.  I even made a fruit flag.  I got the idea from pinterest, of course.  My obsession for pinterest is absurd.  I feel the need to make food/crafts/projects for every holiday now.  Anyway, Kade and Reeves played their little hearts out and then the two older kids, I mean Philip and Hunter, were our pyro gurus for the night.  Kade doesn't love loud noises (from having tubes??), so he is seen in many pictures with his fingers in his ears.  He does love a good sparkler and was such a rule follower for the burn ban.  He put all of his sparkler sticks in the bucket of water that was out in case we had a huge fire from our less than expensive fireworks. 

I walked outside to these guys watching fireworks.










This is actually our grand finale.

a little sparkler time




How cute are they?

Kade stopped for about 2 seconds to take a picture with me.

Sweet Inky



Dinosaurs...

and snakes and alligators and bears and the list goes on and on.  Today Kade and I went to the Natural Science Museum with Silas, Sunny (a.k.a. Silas's mom), Marmie, and Daddy Bobby.  The dinosaur exhibit started in June and Kade has been dying to go.  Ok, maybe I've been dying to take him, but nonetheless he was excited when I told him we were going.  The best part of the museum was when we first got there and Silas and Kade screamed and screamed when they saw each other and ran all around the museum.  The men working the front door were even saying how cute they were.  DUH.  :)  I have to say that the Science Museum did an excellent job on the dinosaur exhibit.  It took Kade a few minutes to get used to them not being real.  He wouldn't take his eyes off the T-Rex.  We finished up our fun morning with lunch at Kade's favorite restaurant, right now, Beagle Bagle with Marmie and Daddy Bobby.

P.S.  The last two pictures are pictures that Kade took.  He has started taking pictures with my camera and is having a blast with it.  Maybe he'll be a photographer??? 

Let's go in!!!

Sweet Sunny and Silas

scary T-Rex

Daddy Bobby explained that he wasn't real.

Marmie and Daddy Bobby

Me and Sunny  Love her!!



fish time

sweet friends

Kade took this one

he took this one too, the playroom, disaster area