polylingual

I might have made up this new word, but it means the ability to speak more than 2 languages. Doug thinks Caden will be a quad-linguist (4 languages) because we have taught him to say goodbye in 4 languages, English, German, Spanish, and Italian. I informed Doug that while our offspring might be a genius knowing how to say goodbye in 4 languages hardly qualifies one to be polylingual.

I mention this tonight because as we were leaving Dillons this evening, Caden literally shouts, "Adios!" and has spent much of the evening entertaining himself by singing and shouting "Auf Wiedersehn" which for those of you who didn't take high school German or who slept through it means goodbye. We're easily impressed we know, but this all comes from the mouth of a child who could barely speak English 18 months ago. If nothing else, it's cheap entertainment! :)

zoologist?

This just might be Caden's future profession. He loves animals! At dinner this evening, there was a pretty red bird right outside our kitchen window. Caden got so excited he was jumping up and down on his chair and ran out to the back yard for a better look. When we got home from grocery shopping tonight, Caden was again thrilled to see some "liar flies" (translation, lightning bugs or fire flies). The one thing that drew his attention away from the magical creatures whose abdomens glow in the dark . . . I pointed out that there was a bunny sitting in our front yard. Caden literally popped out of his car seat and ran to catch the bunny. Daddy had told him that if he could catch it he could keep it as a pet. I sharply admonished Doug with "Don't ever tell him that again!" Doug replied, "Don't worry! He'll never catch it!" I warned that this may be true tonight about a rabbit, but I'm willing to bet that sometime in our future Caden is quick enough to catch frogs, crickets, toads, worms, or snakes . . . none of which I'd like cohabitating with us or to surprise me in the pockets of a pair of pants at laundry time. The only pet we can handle is Caden's fish named W. I think I feel a trip to the zoo coming on so Caden can safely see all the animals we wants.

sonogram flashback

Today I was going through some older digital photos and found some of my sonogram pictures of Caden (obviously before we knew it was Caden). I thought I would post them here today. They were taken (recorded? not sure of the appropriate verb here) 4 years ago this summer. I had many sonograms done that summer and fall (2004) as my doctor wasn't always sure Caden was growing because I consistently lost weight from check-up to check-up. Overall, I ended up losing about 45 pounds from the day I found out I was pregnant (3.05.04) to the day I delivered Caden (11.11.04). Anyway, these are the best sonogram pictures of all those I had taken. Looking at them I can see the Caden I see today in them.

REALLY makes me wish we had another baby on the way!!

wasn't he cute?? (even before we knew he was a he!)

looked like Daddy even in utero

VBS part 1

We normally attend Grace Community Church, where Caden will be going to VBS (part 2) in July. However, a friend invited Caden to attend VBS at First Mennonite this week. Yesterday, to no surprise, he was very upset about being in a room full of strange adults and children and none too happy when Mommy left. He settled down and today had to be dropped off by my friend Christie which he did without complaint. His teacher said he did much better today and he even smiled! The highlight of his 6 hours of VBS experience so far is singing in the "big church" as he calls it. First Mennonite has a traditional sanctuary with wooden pews in rows, very different from Grace which is more open with individual chairs. Caden loves the "big church"!

Side, yet related note ~ at our house we must refer to VBS as Kids' Church in front of a certain little boy. He opposes all things to do with the word 'school' except pointing out where mommy's schools are and where his babysitter's son, Jordan, goes to school. When we ask him if he wants to go school, we usually hear, "No way!!" Makes us glad we opted to stay at Becci's full time for the fall and simultaneously makes me dread having to tell him next year, he's going to preschool no matter what. Public education is compulsory is this house!!