Our smart Kindergartner

We had Kaiden's 1st parent/teacher conference this week since he has been in school for 9 nine weeks now. The teacher went over the benchmarks and his report card to see how he is doing in school. We are so proud of Kaiden!! He is going to always be one of the youngest in his class because his birthday is in July. We knew that there was no way we could hold him back because he was obviously ready. After meeting with his teacher we are very pleased with our decision of not holding him back because of his age.

He is doing AWESOME! His testing scores show that he is already where he needs to be at the END of the school year. This mean that he is already ahead and he has only been in school for 9 weeks. He is reading on a level 2 which is great since he just started reading 2 months ago. By the end of Kindergarten they want them to be a level 3. I know he will be much higher than that by the end of the year. His writing has really improved and he is already forming sentences and sounding out a lot of the letters in the words, even some of the vowels. Here is an example of his writing: "Mi Dad Ga Me A Medl." (My dad gave me a medal.) He was writing about the time that Nick won a medal at his kuk sul won tournament and Nick gave the medal to Kaiden. I love to look at his drawings, he is such a little artist! And now he is becoming a little writer too.

The only thing that the teacher says he needs to be redirected with is that he gets distracted easily and sometimes talks too much when he is not suppose to. But, he does have 14 girls and only 7 boys in his class. I could totally see how he gets distracted. :) Plus he has made a best friend named Kayvon since the first day of school. She told us that she can never put Kaiden & Kayvon together during class because they would most likely talk too much. I am so thankful that he has made some friends and is adjusting really well.

Looking back I can not believe how much he has grown physically and academically. He is going to do great in school.

Dear God,

Thank you for sending Kaiden to us as our child and blessing our lives with his kind spirit and loving heart. Please continue to give Kaiden the knowledge and confidence that he needs to succeed in school. We ask that he does all of these things for your Glory. We praise you Lord for our family and allowing us to see you through the eyes of our children. Please continue to guide our family in following your will so that we may serve and love others in a Christ Like manner.

Amen

This is a pictures of him on the first day of school.

Company Picnic

Last weekend we went to Nick's company picnic where they had a costume contest for the kiddos! Kaiden won 3rd place in his division. the picnic was H&H Ranch and they have fun things for the kids to do, but everything seems really old. They had playgrounds, bounce houses, carousel, boat ride, paddle boats, and more.

This was when Kaiden started feeling sick and later that day he started running 102 fever. He was sick all weekend and I took him to the doctor. on Tuesday. He has strep and has been home from school for 3 days now. That totally explains why he was kind of out of it on Saturday.

I wonder what Zachary is thinking while looking at this ninja? "Whoa he has a sword!" He would not stop checking out his costume, it was pretty cute. The ninja won 1st place.

Dewberry Farm

This past weekend we went to Dewberry Farm with the family and had a blast! My parents (Pops and Nana) and my brother and his family joined us. If you have never been and you live in the Houston area, it is a must thing to do this fall. They have everything to keep your entire family happy for several hours. Playgrounds, pig races, petting zoo, corn maze, pumpkin patch, mini train ride, and much much more. Check out their website at dewberryfarm.com

There are a lot of pictures and I just could not pick a few so here you go. And this was only from my camera, there are still a ton of pictures on my moms and brothers camera. Our family likes to take a bunch of pictures. LOL

Cameron, Kaiden, Zachary, and Maggie

Pops and Nana with their grandbabies. We were just missing Brady who is my other brothers little boy. They live in Midland which is too far away.

Yes my brother Chris is wearing a pig nose. He won the pig holler competition!! It was hilarious!!!

Kaiden doing the duck races

Rebecca and Maggie posing for the camera. No I know where Maggie gets it from.

"It's to heaby (heavy)"

Maggie posing pretty on her pumpkin!

Pops and Nana with Maggie who was not in the mood to take anymore pictures.

They loved the corn maze!! They would take turns figuring out which way to go. Plus they were super fast!!!

Superhero boys in the corn maze!

I can not believe that that he had that much energy at the end of the day to push the wagon to the car. He is like the energizer bunny.

Firetruck day at school

Zachary and I had firetruck day at school this week. The Humble Fire Department came and talked about fire safety and brought 2 of their big trucks. Since Zachary kept saying, "it daddy big firetruck." I tried to explain to him that it was not daddy's firetruck but I dont think he ever got it. I tried to take some cute pictures of him with the truck but he was not up for smiling at all!!

Since I teach the 3 year old class I had my wonderful firefighter husband come up during his lunch hour to my class dressed up in his gear. Most of my class was a little afraid of the Humble Firefighters when they got all dressed up so I was hoping that they would do good for Nick, and of course they did. Not one child got scared of him. I think it helped them knowing that he was my husband and some of the kids already knew him. Nick did a great job and the kids loved him! Thank you Firefighter Nick for helping out.

Isn't my firefighter husband cute??

This is our good friends, the Goolsby's little girl, Cherish. She is in a different 3 year old class, but all the 3 year old classes came into our room to meet Firefighter Nick. For some reason Cherish really likes Mr. Nick so I thought it was cute to get this picture of her with Nick's gear on. Look how happy she is! :)

Zachary and his buddy Ian! See I told you he was not up for smiling.

Big Boy Underwear!!!

Zachary has officially moved into Big Boy underwear!!! We tried several months ago with potty training and Zachary was not ready at all. He was scared and would scream every time we tried to set him on the potty. I am not sure what clicked with him this time but I just decided to try it one day and he went with no problem. 3 days ago I put him in underwear and have not looked back. Yes he has had a couple of accidents but he has done great with it. He even ran to the bathroom and went all by himself yesterday! I only do pull ups at night and at nap. I would suggest skipping pull ups during the day because they actually know when they go potty and want to change immediately. This helps him to know that he can not go in his pants or he will get wet and dirty.

We are so proud of him and he is really proud of himself too. See the pictures for the proof of that. :)

He tells me every time we put on his underwear, "I no pee pee in that?" I know he understands. Now I just have to make sure he can tell me before he has to go potty.

So proud of his potty chart! He gets to put 1 stamp on it and eats 1 jelly bean for going "pee pee" and 2 stamps and 2 jelly beans for going "poo poo." He LOVES his "candy."

Counting all his stamps. This reminds me so much of Kaiden. This is the exact pose that Kaiden does and he looks just like Kaiden in this picture.