Kader-Tot: February 2012

Stories about Kade

Kade thinks he is Emery’s disciplinarian sometimes. Randomly I will hear him say, “No no baby girl. One, two… three. Okay, you go on time out now!”

I showed Kade that I can “take my thumb off” and the thinks it’s pretty gross! It’s that trick where you bend both of your thumbs in half and put them together with the pointer finger over it and “pull” the thumb apart. The first time I did it he freaked out and cried and told me to stop. I showed him how I did it and told him that I wasn’t REALLY taking my thumb apart, but he still didn’t like when I did it. Now that he’s used to it (and with the reassurance that my thumbs are both intact every time I do the trick) he thinks it’s pretty cool and asks me to do it all the time!

Kade is quite the compassionate and patient older brother! Emery has started picking on him quite a bit and for the most part, he deals with it really well. She scratches, bites and pulls hair, and he usually does nothing in return. I will hear him saying, “Ouch! Stop it baby girl!” I’ll ask what is going on and he will say, “Oh, Emery scratched me” or “Emery bit me. But it’s okay.” She has been put on time out quite a bit lately from those kinds of behaviors!

Even though Emery can be fiesty, she loves her brother so much! And he loves his “baby girl” so much too.

These are some of the scratches that Emery has given to Kade. Makes me sad!

I didn’t even ask them to do that :0)

Kade the Silly Sunbeam

Kade started Sunbeams on Sunday January 1, 2011. I thought it was fun that the Sunday he started Sunbeams also happened to be the very first Sunday of the year. Kade was really excited to go to Sunbeams! They have been taking his nursery class for singing time the past two months and he has loved that, so knowing that he would get to stay for the entire thing really made him happy!

Kade loved his class and was so excited because they gave him his very own Book of Mormon to take home along with a little green bag and a book mark. Now he sleeps with his scriptures and uses them to pretend read. He thinks he can use them to sing the hymns and church and to answer any question we ask him. I’m glad he likes them so much! Since he got the scriptures, we have read out of them every night. We used to use the “My First Book of Mormon”, but it’s been fun reading out of the real scriptures. We each (Emery included) read two verses a night. It’s slow going, but we have done it every night since Kade got the scriptures!

Oh this picture makes me laugh. Probably because I know that the expression on his face portrays exactly what he is thinking about Emery!

We came home from church (we are at 1:00 again… not my favorite) and Kade went to the couch and fell asleep holding his Book of Mormon.

And now for a bunch more silly stories about Kade. Kade got this toy for Christmas from his Daddy and he loves it. He loves making the teeth and drilling on them and brushing them. I love that it keeps him entertained for a long time. I don’t love when all the colors of play dough get mixed up! Sterling and he were playing with it and Sterling would say, “Okay Kade, we need a bicuspid (or whatever tooth he would say)” and Kade would happily say, “One more tooth, coming right up!”

One day at church we were singing the opening hymn and I told Sterling that I didn’t know where we were in the music. Well I actually said, “I don’t know where we are!” to which Kade replied, “Mom, you’re at church!” Thanks Kade!

Kade had the hiccups and kept saying, “What’s my body doing?!” He was very concerned that he couldn’t control when his body would hiccup.

Kade helped Emery say our family prayer and did such a good job. His little voice and how he said each phrase was just so cute. And Emery copied every word. I love it!

Kade loves to make up songs. I can’t put an example of what he says because the words are never real words and the tunes are most always made up. Sometimes he picks a tune that he knows but most of the time the words are completely made up!

In the past few weeks Kade has told Sterling and I things like, “I love your big face. I love your big nose. I love your big toes. I love your big belly (that would be to me only). I love your big head.”

Kade has decided he loves my hair down. When my hair is pinned up, he tells me he doesn’t like it. I took it down after being bobby pinned up (when wet) and walked out of the bathroom and ran into Kade. He exclaimed that he loved my hair and it was perfect! Now if you have ever seen my hair when I take it down after being bobby pinned up all day you know it’s FAR from perfect, but he loved it and it made me smile! He will see a pictures of me with my hair down and say, “Oh I love that hair!” He also likes my pony tail and will tell me he loves it randomly.

When Kade tries to tell us that he’s not going to do something again, he will say, “I’m never not going to _______.” For example, he will say, “I’m never not going to hit Emery again Mom” or, “I’m never not going to run away from you at the store.” Fortunately he doesn’t know he’s doing a double negative there. Or does he?

When Kade saw something really big (I can’t remember what it was), he said, “That’s the biggest (thing) I’ve never seen!” I corrected him and said, “It’s I’ve ever seen Kade.” and he said, “But Mom, I’ve never seen a (thing) that big!” Funny how kids minds work!

Dear Kade

Dear Kade,

We love you so much. You are three and a half and are just so caring, smart, funny and entertaining! We started this blog in order to be able to have all those wonderful things you do in one place so we can always remember them. Here are some of your favorite things right now (and these answers came straight from your mouth)!

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Stories about Kade

Kade the Silly Sunbeam

Dear Kade