Not until you eat all of your vegetables.....

So dinner tonight was grilled chicken and grilled vegetables (zucchini, squash, onions) with frozen chocolate covered banana bites for dessert. Caed was famished when we got him home from preschool so I gave him some cheese and a handful of grapes to tide him over while I cooked. I kept his little snack in mind when dinner was ready, and I prepared a plate for him consisting of about 5 bite sized pieces of chicken, a sliced Roma tomato, and 3 spears of grilled squash/zucchini. He ate his chicken and tomatoes and then said he was finished. Patrick being the wonderful dad that he is reminded Caed that we had dessert BUT he couldn't have any until he ATE ALL OF HIS VEGETABLES.....Caed has always been a good eater. He eats most anything, especially when he is hungry. Tonight, however, I knew that wasn't the case. Between the snack and the chicken, those veggies weren't going down easy. Feeling his pain, I cut them up in small pieces and thinking I was helping told him to eat them fast. He ate the first few pieces quickly with no problem, but regret filled my being when I saw him stab 3 pieces of veggies, cram them in his mouth, begin chewing, shudder a bit and reach for his water......Before we could do anything, the veggies made a 2nd appearance. TMI, I know, but at that moment, I felt like a parent. Eat your veggies till you puke kid!!!! :-) Caed is a trooper at withstanding our abuse! After a minute of comforting and reassurance that he had eaten enough veggies to earn a dessert, we were all laughing about it. I'm interested to see what the response will be next time I serve grilled veggies!

A month's worth.....

Yesterday was the perfect snow day.....we slept in, had a brunch consisting of all of our favorite breakfast foods while watching it snow, and then went out to do this!!!



It was all fun and games until someone got hit in the eye- ME!!! I sustained only minor injuries...

Then we came back inside to dry off, thaw out and take naps. Mine was on a bean bag in the bay window in the toy room so
I could see this.....






and watch Noel do this......
Then it was back outside for more fun! We finished the evening off with potato soup, movies, and prayers for a snow day home from school on Monday!!!!
I can't help but think that leaving my snowman wreath up until March brought us some luck :-)
As for the rest of the month....Caed has been a rock star, enjoyed swinging at the neighborhood playground....

and had a wonderful Valentine's day complete with a breakfast of hot Krispy Kreme doughnuts, a homemade heart lovey, and red velvet cupcakes. February was a great month and March is off to a good start!


More pics in the picasa album- linked on the right!

We dodged the Chuck E. Cheese bullet as long as we could!

Caed was invited to Kennedie's birthday today at CEC (aka Hell on Earth). As much as I wanted to get out of it, she is one of his special friends at preschool so I knew we had to go. It was all I could do not to run screaming back to the car when we arrived at the entrance and saw a line extending around the side of the building to even get it! I will not even talk about what it was like inside, although the parenthetical note in the first line says it all. Caed had a great time, and it was really special to see how excited Kennedie was that he was there. I have prayed several times since we left that God would see fit to allow me never to have to return :-)
Dancing with Chuck E. Cheese!
The birthday girl!

Dad Fashion 101

This is what Caed looked like when I picked him up from school last Thursday afternoon. I usually don't see Caed in the morning. I leave the house around 7:25, and he sleeps until 8-8:30. Patrick takes care of him in the morning and gets him to preschool by 9:30. I pick him up after I leave school at 3:30. Usually his attire is not a surprise because I lay out his clothes the night before. Caed, like me, is not a morning person. I try to have everything for the morning taken care of the night before (for both of us actually) to make mornings a bit easier. Anyway, Wed. night I was exhausted so Patrick took care of cooking, cleaning the kitchen, bedtime routines, and school lunches. I know- he is wonderful. However, this explains the outfit. Notice the light-up sandals with socks!!! Nice, huh? These sandals are Thomas the Train. We actually bought them on summer clearance for Caleb because he loves Thomas. Then Caed decided that he LOVED them and had to have them. I know it was a secret plot to make me eat my words about never buying light-up shoes for my child. Anyway, they are even better with socks :-)

The Wolfsohn family....

This is the pic of our family that Caed drew on the kitchen cabinet chalkboard this weekend. From left to right: mom, dad, baby (small-up at the top), poppa, grammie and Caed.

Don't you just love the classic, octopus-like, kid drawing???

He's got an imagination- I'm a little scared!

Caed has reached the stage where his imagination works overtime! He can come up with the most amazing and entertaining stories and deliver them like an Emmy winner. Most of the time he tells these stories to be a part of whatever conversation is going on at the moment. The question is, at what point do we challenge/correct his imaginative tales?

Some of my favorites are about his kids- yes, kids! According to Caed, he has 5 kids. Some boys, some girls, and some babies. For months, he will tell us about taking care of his kids, "getting his kids in trouble", putting his kids to bed, etc........the latest happened on over the weekend. We spent Sat. morning thrift store shopping and then went by Krispy Kreme on our way home. Caed wanted a doughnut with sprinkles. So we ordered one for him. When it came, it had chocolate (a rare treat) icing and sprinkles. So he was in the back in his car seat, enjoying the doughnut when he started with "Guess what my kids said?" He proceeded to tell us that his kids had asked for a bite of his doughnut. He said that he told them they couldn't have any because it had chocolate icing. He explained that his kids couldn't have chocolate until they were very tall and 58 because it has caffeine- you know??

New Year's fun...

We had a great time ringing in 2009. The evening started with dinner at our favorite Chinese restaurant which has become our tradition. Dinner was followed with a party fit for a 3 year old at our house: complete with noise makers, silly string, party hats made by Caed, a 2009 cookie cake, party drinks, and a neighborhood fireworks show. Caed couldn't stay awake past 10:30 as hard as he tried. Patrick and I watched the ball drop and then aged 10 years as we watched Robbie Maddison jump the L'Arc de Triomphe at Paris Las Vegas. Bring it on 2009!!!!