When the Dream Never Dies: July 2018

Well, somehow Caden is already five! Time continues to fly by. He recently went to Dr. Ray for his well child check. She was happy with his growth and development and he passed the hearing test. They skipped the eye exam since he went to the eye doctor within the last year. He was 44" tall and weighed 42 pounds. He's wearing size 11 1/2 shoes and 4/5 clothes.

Caden loves:

Sports-

He recently finished up his second season of soccer with Metro United. His team was the Megabytes and several boys on his team are friends from church. He's learned a lot and shown great improvement since the beginning of the season and kicked his first goal in the last 5 minutes of the last game!

Basketball is his new love. He practices his shots on his goal at home all day long.

He and daddy play lots of baseball in the backyard. He's always loved playing baseball and has a pretty mean swing. I'm scared to pitch balls to him.

Reading-

This is by far his favorite thing to do. We have read so many chapter books this year. Here are some of the books we've read over the last year:
Cam Jansen Series
Boxcar Children Series
Imagination Station Series
Capitol Mysteries
Calendar Mysteries
The Hobbit
Charlotte's Web
Chronicles of Narnia

Travel-

We all love to travel and have been to several new places this year. We marked 4 new states off of his list. In September we went to Colorado, then to Oklahoma in February and then Indiana and Michigan this month. So far he's been to 13 of the 50 states. We also took trips to Tulsa, Omaha and Branson.

School-

We did preschool 3 mornings a week and both had a fun time with that. He loves learning and is a joy to teach, most days ;) Science experiments are the highlight of the school day recently. He enjoys math and works numbers and problems in his head all day long. He quizzes us on addition and subtraction often. He's learning to read this year and we are so proud of him.

Legos-

This was the theme of his birthday party. He loves to build and design. Caden has an engineering mind. I love to watch him work.

Caden does NOT love-

Baths, haircuts, band-aids, dressy clothes, doing anything slowly

May Adventures

School Day at the K

The Megabytes

Our first train ride!

Chicago, here we come!

Millenium Park

Portillo's chocolate cake

New Buffalo, Michigan

Chicago Navy Pier Ferris Wheel

Mother's Day dinner at the Stray Dog

New Buffalo, Michigan

The Birthday Boy

The Lego Cake Aunt Shannon helped me make

Birthday Party with BawBaw and GiGi

Mother's Day with GiGi

Mother's Day with MeMo

Deanna Rose on his birthday

Birthday Party with PaPa and MeMo

Memorial Day with Hancocks

Memorial Day with Whitneys

We buried a time capsule while Caden was 5 and Mitch was 35. We included letters from us and his grandparents. He wrote his name, put in a few toys, made his hand print and foot print.

The plan is to dig it back up when Caden is 35.