A Smorgasbord of Topics

Paige and Lily played against each other on Saturday, which was cool, we could watch both girls without sitting through TWO games in the heat.  :) 


They were cute, during a break Lily walked up and said "Good job Paige!" 

The other kids played and ate snacks and paid no attention to the game.

I took several pictures of the babies playing in the dirt together, until I realized they were pretty much sitting on an anthill. 

Other than that and the birthday party we've mostly hung out at home.  

Caso's been cuddly.

He's also very into his daddy lately, he tells me he misses him MANY times during the day, and asks how long until we pick him up.

I got him new AWESOME Halloween pajamas.  They're covered in cute bats and little stars, and I LOVE them.  I made him pose for me in them last night.

Neely's been playing with Gia a lot.  Here she was putting heroes on her back and telling her "Wahoo!  Gawwop!(Gallop, I think, although Jess said it might be an attempt at Giddeup too, so who knows)

 She's had a sudden explosion of her vocabulary.  She already knew the words, but now she's putting them together more often and speaking in sentences.  We're having full on conversations now.  One of my new favorites has been when she tells me "I RIIIIIIIIGHT back, mom!", and then she walks out of the room waving goodbye to me.

Whenever we see a picture of someone she tells me "AAAWWW!  So cute mom."

The one she probably says most often is "I wike...(insert any object)".  In church I gave her a sucker, which she calls "hot", and she started saying (loudly) "Wow!  I WIKE HOT!"

In the car yesterday there was a fly buzzing around the backseat.  She was looking up and said "Where you going bug?"

She sings to herself, just humming or saying "Dooodooodoooooooo".  Jess was pushing her around on her little tricycle in the backyard and he said she was singing "Irideabike, ride a bike....".

Today is Silly Sock Day for Paige, at school.  We tried like 5 stores before we found socks that were long enough to show above her shoes AND were her size.

Yesterday her friend Bella gave her a Best Friends bracelet.  :)

 

Today I let the other two sleep in a little longer, so Jess was taking Paige to school this morning.  Caso and Neely woke up right before they left.  Neely was in a good mood until Paige wouldn't let her use her lunchbox.  So I got her the one Grama gave to HER, and she carried it around happily.

Paige said goodbye, and it was time to go.

 Neely walked her to the car, lunchbox still in hand, and was NOT pleased when she found out she wasn't going with them.

We came inside and she yelled at me about it for a bit. I was asking them what they wanted for breakfast and Caso told me "All I like is quinoa."  Haha.

Party for "The Casons"

The Cason/Kayson party was of course Spiderman themed, and we had it at the park.  The boys seemed to love everything.   

 

 Opening gifts was CRAZY, so hard to keep track of what was going on.  (So when I send out the thank you cards, please forgive me if I forgot part of your gift, 2 boys opening gifts at the same time a couple of feet from each other, while all the other kids "help" gets a bit crazy)

The party was great, right up until the time that Brooklyn fell on the playground and broke 2 bones in her arm.  It was so sad, and so obviously broken.  Poor baby.  Last party I throw at a park.

Then Kayson and Bayleigh spent the night, and Caso was in heaven.  When Kayson left the next day Caso told me "I love Kays sooo much.  I love him all the way to God.  I'm gonna miss him soooo much."

Decadence

 I have a birthday party post in the works, but right now Caso wants me to play with his heroes with him.  So here's a quick one from a few weeks ago.  The kids somehow talked me into cookies WITH WHIPPED CREAM for an after school snack.  Ha. 

Death of a Robot

First of all, my last post made a few people worry about Paige, because it sounded like she was still sick when I posted it.  She wasn't, those videos of Neely were taken on Saturday which was the 2nd, and last, day that Paige was sick.  (I'm just lazy and it took me a few days to put the videos on the blog) Paige felt pretty good on Sunday, and fine on Monday-she didn't have to miss any school.  Thanks for worrying about her though.  :)

The other two got the cough and fever too, on Sunday and Monday, but they never got it as bad as Paige had it, and felt better by Tuesday.  We colored together while Paige was at school, and Cason spent the most time coloring with me that he ever has.  Neely spent a while coloring too, but only a few seconds per picture.  :)

Once Caso lost interest, he went and buried himself in toys in the playroom.  He always does that, pretending he was caught in a toy avalanche.  I went to ask if he was okay and he groaned "Yeah, but call Grama and see if she can pick Paige up."

 Alex and Faith were going to spend the night last night, and they were playing this restaurant game.  It was the cutest.   Everyone had aprons, and they were pretending it was a very busy restaurant, so everyone was all stressed, running around and yelling orders back and forth.  At one point, Paige was talking to Cason, and I heard Alex, who was the cook, shouting at Paige that she had like 10 people who hadn't even ordered yet.  Paige gasped, said "OH MY GOSH!" and went running with her little notepad.  Faith looked just as genuinely stressed, trying to keep up with all the orders.  Neely went in and ordered too.

 

Caso was playing, but whenever I heard him say anything, it wasn't too relevant to a restaurant.  Like "Hey, pretend you noticed a robot died."  

 

They all just let him add his weird spin, and tried to keep their game going around it.  I was in the room for the dead robot moment, so I said "HEY!  There's a dead robot in here?  That's a health code violation!"  Alex didn't even hesitate and just said "HE JUST DIED!"  Haha.  He must have been an employee until his untimely death.

Paige got to spend the night with THEM last night, so it was just the other two and us.  We read books to them in our bed, since Caso didn't get to spend the night.  Sleeping with Caso is always like this:  Heads lovingly smashed together.

"Tank you Robots"

Neely does a lot of funny things lately.  When she is thinking she's cool she will do this wrinkly nose, slow eye blinking thing.  She started calling us "mom" and "dad" a few days ago.  No more "mama" and "daddy".  This better be a phase.  It is pretty funny though, she'll randomly tell me "Thank you mom."  or "Sorry mom."

She also will touch a finger to her lip like she's thinking and then say "I knooooooooow, how 'bout...." and then tell us something. 

She also sings to herself sometimes:  "doo doo doo doooooo...." 

Neely was loving Caso's robots today, lining them up, and singing and chatting to herself.  She is a funny mix of Cason and Paige, she knows and uses LOTS of words and phrases like Cason did young, but also has her own madeup language she uses just as often.  So she just mixes it, lots of rambling Neely language, with some English thrown in.  In this video she's singing to herself, counting robots and talking to them. She counts the robots, skipping six and going right to "SEVNEN, eight".  Anyway, I put the camera down to go help sick little Paige, while I was recording this, so I just watched the rest of the video a little while ago, and it makes me laugh. 

First, her singing to herself and the bots:

 She's hilarious.  I like the end, when she decides she's done, says "Here ya go!" and thanks the robots for their cooperation:  "Tank you guys.  Tank you robots" and then says "you're welcome" for them.  Haha.  Then she leaves and sings loudly to herself as she walks off.

4 Year Old Boy

Paige was still pretty sick on Saturday, but Caso still managed to have a great birthday.  We gave him the gifts from us, and also the one that had come in the mail from Skifter, Sarah, Liam and Colin.  Plus, Tyra stopped by and gave him the present from her.  Jess made an early morning run to the store and got some breakfast treats in the form of cinnamon rolls.  

He spent his day doing his favorite things:  

Playing LOTS with daddy and also Neely, aka "Baby Thor"...

Enjoying all his new toys..

 

 ...and more new toys, wearing his new Batman shirt...

Playing some Mario, having Panda Express for lunch, and mini cupcakes for dessert...

How in the heck is he 4?  He was just doing this not too long ago:

At least he's still our cuddly, good hearted boy.  I would be here for hours if I tried to describe every little thing we love about him.  There's no boy like Caso.  Happy birthday mister, we love you a zillion.

No Longer Funny

Well, it never was, really.  But it was so ridiculous it was almost funny in a way.

Paige woke up a lot last night, coughing and feverish and talking in her sleep.  This morning she was really sick, and I figured it was a cold.  But now she's also thrown up several times.  :( 

So it's officially a curse.  Within 2-3 days of Caso's birthday party at least one of us gets sick. 

The day before his first bday party was SUPPOSED to happen.

The day after his second bday party.

Last year I didn't post about it, but we definitely started throwing up the day after his party. 

Now his 4th bday party was supposed to be tomorrow, but it's happened again.  Because late August in Arizona is the ideal time/place to have the flu.

He's not upset about it because now he gets to have a shared birthday party with his cousin Kayson next week, and they both want a Spiderman party, so it's perfect.  I wish their names were spelled the same way, I could have them put "HAPPY BIRTHDAY CASONS" on the cake.  Haha.