Our friend Caeden

Alex has a friend, Caeden that we met almost 2 years ago in school. I know I’ve talked about him on here before. His mom and I have become great friends and we even got Caeden’s dad, Mike, and Drew together for pizza and beers one night. We have had a great time getting to know them. And Caeden has a little brother, Noah, and now every time Lauren sees a baby, she calls them Noah. One time I was holding another baby of our friend of ours, and Lauren runs up yelling, “No mama, no Noah.” Too bad this baby’s name was Annabel. As much as she loves babies, she’s not into sharing me with them. And Caeden’s mom’s name is Alicia and now Lauren has named her favorite baby, Alicia. So cute. Needless to say, we spend a lot of time with them and love having them in our lives. And now, Lauren LOVES Caeden. She just adores him. Smiles and laughs at everything he does or says. Follows him around, almost flirting if you will. And Caeden is so good with her. I now see how life will be 10-15 years from now, Lauren flirting with all of Alex’s friends. Oh he is going to hate it. He tolerates it now but even today exclaimed that Caeden is his best buddy but Lauren thinks Caeden is her friend too. Here are some pics from our last play date – the 3 musketeers if you will!

A little artist on our hands

Recently, Lauren LOVES to color. I mean LOVES to color. I bet she colors pictures for hours a day. As soon as she wakes up, it’s “I want to color.” And she’d rather do that right now than a lot of other things. And she is SO proud of her work. She’s always exclaiming, “Look it!” When we were at school last week, the teachers had out an art project that the kids could color and glue on pictures of spring things. She literally sat there for 25 minutes working on her art project. The teachers were amazed – couldn’t believe she had such a long attention span on something like that. Most toddlers (and even Alex today) spend about 1 minute creating an art project and then they are done. Not our Lauren, she’s so into it. It’s fun to see her creations.

Our Children's Museum Vist

A couple of weeks ago, we took the kids to the Children’s Museum again with Aunt Betsy. As always, they had a fantastic time! The new exhibit is Clifford the Big Red Dog so the kids were thrilled about that. And while we were having a picnic lunch in the atrium, guess who appeared…Clifford himself! He was dancing and giving kids hugs. Alex and Lauren were both really excited to see him, but if you know our kids at all – kept their distance. They actually petted him from behind, just his tail but wanted no hugs or handshakes or pictures taken with him. It was a great Saturday afternoon though and they loved that Dad was able to come with us. And so did Mom, makes my job a lot easier then!

Ice Skating

After begging all winter and telling me on a regular basis that his Dad was going to teach him how to ice skate, Alex finally went ice skating for the very first time. He was SO excited to put on his new skates, thought it was weird walking in them, and told us afterwards that the ice was “slippery.” But Dad and Alex had a great time (the 15 minutes Alex actually lasted). And on the way home, Alex told us that he just has to practice and then he’ll get good like his Dad. It was cute seeing him try something new!