Kaiden's play date with Landry

Kaiden had a play date at our house with his buddy Landry that lives on our block.  Connor plays with Landry's big brother, Raheem when he's there (he's at his mom's house most of the week).  The boys played cars, play doh, painted pictures, painted sun catchers, had lunch....  Top pictures are of our roof being replaced.  We built our house in 2006 with a 25 year roof and the wind storm 2 years ago did some damage, which the weather has continued to damage our shingles... time to replace.  Kaiden loves having his picture taken and likes to make funny faces.  He is such a goofy kid.  And LOUD!  I'm always telling Connor to speak up because he's so quiet and telling Kaiden to speak quieter since he's always so loud and he talks non-stop!  Connor is mellow and loves to play Lego's by himself, nice and quiet.  While Kaiden is loud and running circles around the house.  Total opposites!

Cub Scouts

Trail Blazers at Cowles Scout Reservation, off Diamond Lake. We had so much fun!  It was a full day of learning and fun.  Each section was about 30 minutes long and included games, biking, obstacle course, learning to rope an animal, fishing, how to start a fire, how to tie knots, how to shoot a bee bee gun, sling shot, bow and arrow, etc.  Lunch was sandwiches, cookies, chips and a milk.  It was a little chilly, but not bad.  We had a blast and Kaiden didn't even mind that he couldn't do half the events.  He was completely content and happy just watching his big brother do them.

 

 

Wild Krats

I took Connor to see Wild Krats live.  He loves the Wild Krats cartoon.  We had a blast watching the live show.

family pictures

It's always challenging to get family pictures taken every year.  Jason hates to have his picture taken and thinks its a waste of money.  He also refuses to take time out of his weekend to get pictures done.  So, we end up meeting him after he's off work and Connor's out of school at 5pm for pictures at JCP.  The boys are usually tired, hungry, etc.  I would love to get some professional pictures taken outdoors, but I know the battle that will take to talk Jason into spending more money for pictures.

 

Connor 3rd grade

Jason's new truck

fishing

A wooden truck, car and plane that grandpa made for Kaiden.  He was so excited that Grandpa made them for HIM.  He's possessive of them too.  Nobody can touch or play with them except Kaiden.