Graduates, Gifts, and More

Today Connie and Melissa are both graduates of the nursing program! Woohoo! Congratulations guys! We're proud of you. We drove to Havasu for the ceremony, where we sat behind a family with SEXTUPLETS. Crazy. After dinner at Red Robin we drove home, and Cason napped on the drive from about 9:15 to 10:00. So we have a late night ahead. Ha.

We started a fire, because it's COLD out. We were sitting by it, and Paige and Cason ran to the living room. Paige came back with a pair of my shoes and said "I have a present for you!" So I thanked her and told her they were "PERFECT!". She ran off saying she needed to get daddy a present too. I figured she'd get a pair of his shoes too. But instead she found her mug with her name on it, went to the fridge, and got the milk out. She poured him a tall mug of it(her first pour ever, and without spilling a drop, I might add) and brought it over. She stood behind me and said kind of shyly, "I got daddy some milk." So of course we made a big deal out of it. She waited while he tried it and I ran for the camera.
She was so excited when he LOVED it. She ran over and gave him one of her AWESOME crazy tight hugs. Those are the best.
Then of course she wanted some.
While she was giving gifts, Cason was playing with a beach towel. First he ran in the room with it, and did this.
Then he stood up and played peekaboo with me.
Only instead of saying "peekaboo" this time, he just said "hi".
And laughed at his own hilarity.
This isn't really related to today at all, but Jess and I were talking about how Paige doesn't like to accept anything negative happening at all. If it does happen, she just says that it didn't, and then believes it. It's so cute. Like one morning we were in the kitchen and I was walking to throw something away. I looked back at her at the wrong moment and caught my little toe on the corner of the wall and about broke it off. I just held my breath and hopped around while screaming bloody murder in my mind. Paige looked all worried and said "What happened mama?" I said "I really hurt my toe on the wall." She forced a smile and put both her hands up in the air and said "No no no no no. It's all BETTER!" Or if we talk about anyone being mad or anything she'll say "No no no they just HAPPY!". Jess said it's probably his favorite thing about her, and he hopes she'll always be that way. I do too.