Baseball, Zoo and Light Brigade Awards Night

Anthony called Tuesday afternoon and said hey Mike just called me and has some tickets for the Red hawks tonight let's take the kids. I had been meaning to call the allergist because he wanted to take Caden to a Texas Rangers game in a few weeks. I hadn't done that yet though and he said it won't be busy tonight and if there are people eating peanuts around us we can move to the hill or walk around. So we decided to give it a shot. It was really a fun time. I am so glad we went. There was no one around us actually eating peanuts so that took away a ton of my anxiety.

Caden is such a daddy's boy and had a great time because he was with his daddy. I think Caden would have a great time doing anything with his dad! Carolina really enjoyed the atmosphere clapping along with the announcers, watching the game and eating a few snacks (I had packed). Caylea is yet again just like mommy. It wasn't a minute into the second inning and she asked me if it was almost over. LOL I told her no that it had just begun. I was keeping myself busy making sure I got all the pictures I wanted of Caden's first baseball game. I should of brought Caylea's camera along with us that probably would of made my daughter happy! After the game we walked across the street to the fountain the kids loved that then down the river walk and across the river to our van. I think we all had a great time and it didn't cost us anything except the gas to get down there.







Wednesday morning I got a call from my friend wanting to know if we wanted to join for the zoo. We had no plans for the day so I said sure. It was great she even offered to pick the kids up lunchables since she had to go by the store anyways. Saved me alot of time trying to pull lunches together. The zoo was packed we had to park at the omniplex (well I did she scored a great parking spot). The kids had a great time as always. Caden even got to play in the mud/water a little bit. I only wish I had taken the opportunity to snap a few pic's of that but no I was too concerned with the fact that he had splashed mud on his shirt. We saw the dinosaurs again the kids love them every time! Then we had lunch and saw some more animals before we headed to the park. That is where we spent the remainder of our time. It was late afternoon before we got home. I still had to get Caylea's home school work completed, make dinner and get ready for church. Also Caden climbed out of his crib so I decided to convert it to a toddler bed. When I was doing that I noticed it wasn't on the lowest setting for a crib so I had to lower it anyways for a toddler bed. Well after 45 minutes of screaming and a tired mommy and daddy we put the rail back on. Thankfully he can't get out (yet. . .I know it's only a matter of time). Thankfully though we bought a little time no matter how small. Here is a picutre of him in his "toddler bed" before all the screaming began. . .









The awards ceremony was great. I was exhausted from the day but so very proud of my daughters. They are such good little girls. They behave so well in their classes I never hear any bad reports of them having any rude, disrespectful or snotty behavior. I know this may come in time but for now I am so thankful that they respect authority. Caylea did so well with her memory verses and most of the year she did it on her own. She got 16 beads (one bead for every 4 verses she memorized) I am so very proud of that she was very self motivated most of the year. She did take some breaks through out the year where she would only do one or two verses I told her as long as she did at least one a week I would be happy. I didn't work with Carolina near as much as I should of but she had so much fun in her class learning about Jesus. I have been doing a devotion at night with the girls and at the end of each page it has a verse and it's funny because Caylea sees that sometimes the words are wrong because the devotion has the verses in NIV and she learns verses in KJV. I think that is one smart cookie :) Here is a short video of Caylea and her class saying II Peter 1:5-8. . .their teachers did an amazing job with them this year!





I called the allergist today about Caden's blood test for soybeans. It was taken 3 weeks ago and when I called last week it wasn't in. Anyways it came back moderate. So he defiantly has a true allergy to soybeans. His skin test said egg, peanut, tree nut and soy but the allergist questioned soybean she said it just wasn't as common and because he is allergic to peanuts she felt it may of been a cross reaction. Well no such luck I knew he was reacting to soybean whether or not it was a true allergy or a intolerance I wasn't sure. I guess it's good we know now.

Well my friends I am off for the night I am going to finish reading Return it is a great book. I just took up reading books lately my best friend got me reading the redemption series by Karen Kingsbury. I am hooked! I even read another one of her 3 book series' while I was waiting on Remember from the library. Great stuff!