K-A-D-D-N

To teach Kaden how to spell his name I have been singing him the song BINGO but changed the words to.

There was a boy that had a name and Kaden was his namo. K-A-D-E-N... You know how the song goes.

Kaden has liked it and almost has it down but says K-A-D-D-N..

Left or Right Handed?

For a while now this has been a mystery with Kaden.

Today when I picked Kaden up his teacher told me he has been having some trouble holding his scissors and pencil and to work with him a little more at home.

I have no problem with his teacher talking to me about it and actually love the feedback of how he is doing. I did mention that on many occasion at home if we switch things to his left hand or side he does some things better and has showed some signs of being a lefty. His teacher did go on to say that when she was working with him he did say it didn't feel right could he switch hands.

This has worked with golf, playing his guitar which he did not hold correctly till we switched sides. In the car he could not buckle his seat belt until we moved his seat to click on the left.

My fear is this. Am I encouraging one side over the other? Is he really a lefty? If anyone has any training on how to spot this or has had a child that is a lefty I would love some advice.

This afternoon I would tell him to empty his hands and put them to his side. I then would hand him something and see which hand he would grab it with. I still do not have a clear diagnosis because he grabbed with both.

A Spoon & A Sock

Kaden got out all of Karsees toys today but he would rather play with a spoon and a clean sock he found in the laundry basket

Karson does not normally go around like this but he had a temperature today and did not feel well

Stuck

A couple of days ago I took the bumper out of Karsee's bed because the boy is strong and actually riped parts of it from the crib. He likes to see his room and look around now but is constantly getting limbs stuck. I counted Saturday night the amount of times I went into his room to free him. The final number was 8. Last night he fell asleep like this. He didn't cry about it I guess he was that tired. I did free him after I took the picture.

Karsee

Karsee has been left out of my blog lately. He has some new skills too. He is babbling Dada and Bubba but only Mama when he is crying sometimes. Kaden called me Dada for the longest so I am OK with that.


Karson took off in a full soldier crawl Thursday when I took the boys up to church with me. Kaden set up the play tent and tunnel. Karsee just took off toward it crawled into and through half the tunnel and then got stuck and then Mommy had to save him. He was moving pretty fast.

Happy 9th Month Birthday Karsee.

Easy Breezey Recipe #1

During my last visit with my family my Sister-in-law shared her new cookbook with me. It was full of easy recipes. If you are like me it is hard to come up with new idea's for dinner. I tend to get in a rut. I wrote some of them down and decided to start trying them once a week. Last night I tried the first one.


Breaded Pork Chops
- 1/4 cup original Bisquick mix
- 6 saltine cracker squares, crushed
- 1/2 tsp. pepper
- 1 egg
- 1 tbsp water
- 4 boneless pork loin chops, 1/2 inch thick
- 3 tbsp. veg. oil


1. In a shallow container, mix Bisquick mix, crackers crumbs, seasoned salt and pepper. In another dish, mix egg and water.

2. Dip pork into egg mixture, then coat with Bisquick mixture.

3. In 10-inch nonstick skillet, heat oil over medium heat. Cook pork in oil 8-10 minutes, turning once, till done.




It was easy to prepare and fix. Over all time from start to finish was around 20 minutes.

I give it a B. I also have to say I am not a big pork fan unless it is pork from Pho.

Sheckler Skills

A few weeks ago Kaden found a skateboard at the youth garage sale. Kaden has gotten it out a few times and fell right off, but today I told him to bring it in the living room where it doesn't roll out from under him and encouraged him to practice standing on it. After an hour or so he was doing really well and even doing a kick stop.

When Tim got home he worked with him on the hard floor and Kaden was doing even better.

Homework

I put alot of thought into when I would have Kaden sit down and do his homework each week. I guess I picked the perfect time this morning because all I did was give him a marker and explain what to do and he did both pages and cut out his letter B picture in minutes and was finished.

Kaden's First Day Of School

This morning Kaden woke up and was excited to get ready for school. Kaden walked into the class and did fine. Tim and I went in with him and his teacher walked through the morning routine with him. He then started playing and we barely got a goodbye.

Before I left to pick Kaden up I packed him a cup and a snack. I am glad I did because the first thing he said to me was I am hungry and thirsty. I will have to remember to keep doing that.

On our way home we stopped for icecream.

We found a use for the napmat today. Kaden was tired when he got home so he had some quiet time on his mat.

Kaden said "school was awesome". I think he is really going to like it.

Veggie Kids

Yesterday morning was Kaden's first morning in children's church. He walked in and started playing and said "see ya Mom".
He talked about his morning all day and last night ask if he could go back tomorrow.