After church we had our friends, The Dunn’s come over for dinner and we had a little Easter Egg hunt for the kids! Kamryn was taking a nap so she missed out on all the fun. Kade found the Gold egg and Landon found the silver egg!
Kade kinked his neck. Poor guy cried and cried. I talked him into taking some Children’s Advil. He was a little whiner all night!
So Friday Kade’s class went on a field trip to the Desert Botanical Gardens. As soon as he found out that they would be going on a field trip he wanted me to be a chaperone. So when we got the permission slip I signed up. Well i guess almost every parent wanted to go, so to make it fair they put all the kids names in a hat that their parents volunteered and Kade’s name was drawn so I got to go…lucky me (eyes rolling)!
I loved going on the field trip to the Children’s Museum, but the Desert Botanical Gardens, not so much. The best part was going into the butterfly exhibit where there were many live butterflies flying everywhere and if you were lucky then one would land on you.
Here are a few pictures of us on the way there…
Here they are learning about plants….they were so bored! Not to rag on the program but the things they taught the kids and the 3 types of plants they looked at you can find ANYWHERE in AZ. They could have taught these kids the same thing at the school. Why not go to the Zoo that is only a few miles away from the school instead of driving at least 45 minutes? Then our guide only left us 10 minutes to spend in the butterfly garden before we had to get back on the bus. Oh well I was glad I could go and help out.
For a while now I have been wanting to get Keegan’s haircut. He has needed that fuzz taken off badly! So tonight Ryan and I cut it off. I couldn’t get any good pictures of the after because with a flash he blinks and his eyes are closed and without a flash they are blurry. So we will go with the blurry I guess!
And after…
It’s a little shorter than I imagined but I am sure it will grow back before we know it! Kade had his first haircut at almost the exact age (I had to look it up in his scrapbook). My little baldie!
Kade didn’t have school yesterday and Kamryn was excited for Kade to be home all day to play with her. They spent alot of time outside jumping on the tramp and coloring with chalk. It was a nice lazy day.
Later that day, Sara and Sami came over for to hang out for a bit and we made some bows. Keegan was pushing Sami on the Buzz push along thing (I have no clue what it’s called).
I have felt so guilty lately. Guilty that I let Kade skip brushing his teeth at night because I didn’t want to deal with the whining and blah blah blah and now I am kicking myself because he has so many cavities. I warned him that if he didn’t brush his teeth that he would get cavities. He didn’t believe me until now. When I was a kid I never had cavities and I don’t remember being a great brusher when I was younger, so when I would have to fight with Kade I thought, they are only baby teeth and I didn’t get any cavities so I am sure he will be fine. I was so wrong! He has quite a few.
So today he got one side of his mouth fixed and because one of his teeth needed fillings on 3 sides they needed to cap it off with a silver tooth! Kade is not excited about this at all. I had to drag him into the dentist. He cried and cried. He did so awesome though. He got up in that chair like a big boy and didn’t even cry or whine. The dentist was so great with him about explaining things without “explaining” them to the point where he was scared. He was hilarious on the laughing gas. I myself have never had laughing gas or even seen someone who was on laughing gas. He would laugh at the dentist’s stupid jokes when normally my shy boy would just smile. He got the watermelon scented gas. When they first numbed his mouth he reached up and pulled on his lip. I can’t wait for when he goes again in a couple weeks so I can witness this laughing gas experience again. Of course I may let Ryan experience it next time.
Anyhow as soon as he got out of the chair I think he fully realized what just happened. He got a silver tooth! He started crying and crying. They were all worried he was in pain. He wasn’t, he was just upset that he no longer had a white tooth anymore and that it was silver. He still is not very happy about it. Hopefully he gets used to it because there is another one coming!
We went to Target and I let him pick out a toy to buy with some birthday money from Aunt Ashley. I kicked in a few dollars since he did so awesome but the rule was he couldn’t complain about the silver tooth anymore if I bought him what he wanted. He decided on the Tangled DS game. I tried to talk him into another one, but that movie is a favorite at our house right now. We get out to the car and I opened it up for him and he said, “ Mom, is this a girl game?” I said, “Well it could be either, but I am sure there are more girls than boys that want that game.” his reply was a laugh and then he said, “I will let my sister play it!” We stopped at McDonalds and I got him a chocolate shake so that he could have something to fill his tummy without chewing. When we got home he very willingly took some Children’s Advil! No complaints, now that’s a first!
This is what he is doing now! Hope his mouth doesn’t hurt too bad or going back to the dentist in a few weeks is not going to be fun. Hopefully he just remembers the yummy smelling watermelon!
Today I finally found a mattress that will fit on the bottom trundle of Kamryn’s bed. The bed we bought for her is tall and has a trundle underneath with drawers. So today after I put the mattress on it was nap time so I put her down for her first nap in her big girl bed. She did not like it one bit. She cried and cried and knocked on the door for me to let her out. She played for a little bit and then finally all was quiet and this is how I found her.
Don’t know where she is? She is under that blanket on the bottom trundle!
As church was coming to an end on Sunday I glanced to my right and saw a baby carrier/carseat and immediately recognized the blanket that the baby boy was wrapped up in. My heart ached and my mind trailed off thinking Kooper who for a few short hours was swaddled tightly in that same blanket. (Well it looked the same. I knew mine was tucked away at home in my special box from Lanee’s Legacy.) I couldn’t see the baby’s head, it was covered up by the shade on the carrier all I saw was the bottom of his body wrapped in the blanket and his cute little curled fingers resting in his palms on top of the blanket. It was so cute. I couldn’t help but imagine my Kooper chilling in his little carrier. My eyes filled with tears for my baby boy that was gone too soon. I haven’t been able to take my mind off of it lately. I am pretty sure that this person had an older boy that is close in age to Kooper and that is why she has a blanket that was from Target around that time.
It is so strange because after Kooper passed away I don’t remember seeing babies swaddled in these popular blankets from Target. Maybe it was because I avoided looking at the little baby boys when I was out and about? I am not sure.
I remember Kooper was wrapped and swaddled tightly in this blanket and then another blanket that matched it. I didn’t want him to get cold. I wanted to keep him warm.
