President's Day and Other

My office and Caden's school was closed Monday for President's Day.  Caden was still coughing-not sure when he will get over all that-so we stayed home and played outside!  The weather was beautiful, and the only thing missing was Tim!  He had to work.

Last weekend Tim raised Caden's swing and we converted it to a 'big boy' swing and Caden loves it.  Look how long my 'Baby's' legs are!

When Caden was born or maybe when I was pregnant with him, Auntie Kay got him a 'Bug Collector Kit'.  You can imagine my excitement at that! :|  Just kidding, Kay!  Well I broke it out for him Monday.  It had been up in his closet and he had a blast with it.  It came with a magnifying glass, tweezers to 'collect' the bugs and a kit with netting to 'house' the bugs.

Here he is looking for bugs!

Getting an up close and personal view of the ants.

We found some snail shells and a few flowers that he put in his kit, but no bugs.  Darn... :)

Next it was sidewalk chalk time.  Tim and I played this with him last weekend too and I had an idea for Tim to trace my body on the sidewalk as if I had been killed and it was a crime scene!  I know, cool right? So Monday Caden and I drew animals and letters and all sorts of stuff. 

Caden wanted to be 'traced', so I traced his body while he was on the sidewalk too! 

 You can barely make out the outline, but it is in blue and his head is at the top of the picture.

Then we played bubbles!  After many times of telling him to not put the wand ON his lips, he finally got the hang of it and was having fun.  It was very windy, so we both got lazy and just held the wands up and let the wind blow the bubbles for us!

After his nap he wanted to go back outside.  We walked outside and the temperature had dropped!  We had to run back inside and get some warmer clothes on!  We filled up the bubble mower and he 'mowed' the sidewalk.

Yesterday after I picked him up from school, I told him we would go to the park.  So I busted out the jogger stroller and we ran to the park.  Well I ran as I pushed him! 

Oddly enough, there was a little girl-you can see her right above his arm in the background in a turquoise shirt-named Caden (not sure of her spelling).  It was so bizarre to hear her dad-in the green shirt-yell "CADEN" and my son turn around.  So I had to ask him.  And indeed his 'daughter's' was named Caden.  I've never heard of a girl named that.  You can imagine how confused my Caden was!

I loved this picture of him with the sun in the background.



Wordless Wednesday

Happy Birthday Kari!

Happy Birthday Little Sis!  I love you to the moon and back and am so blessed that God chose you to be my little sister!  I can never see a glass of chocolate milk or do my make up without laughing outloud!  I hope your birthday is fantastic and we can't wait to celebrate with you next weekend!

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Caden Bball Feb 15 2011 Part II

Shooting Indoor Hoops Feb 15 2011

Wordless Wednesday

Happy Valentine's Day

Wishing you and yours a very Happy Valentine's Day! 

From We 3 Iveys!

**Caden's shirt says 'Mom and Dad's Little Valentine' :)

Grammie's Birthday/Super Bowl

This past Sunday was as you all know Super Bowl Sunday.  We invited Grammie over to celebrate her birthday since we were all snowed in last week!  We had a great time!

Grammie brought her iPad over and Caden played games on it.  Here they are during a serious game!

We made Grammie a chocolate chip cookie cake for her birthday!

 Here is Grammie walking in to her birthday cake and gift!

 Caden was so excited saying, 'Can I eat your birthday cake and open presents?'

 Here he is 'helping' Grammie blow out the candles!

 We were happy he let Grammie blow some out as well!

 They both did a great job!

We got her a gift card for Amazon Kindle books so she can download even more to her iPad.  Caden is waiting on her to finish so he can dig into the cake!  I love the look on his face!

Happy LATE Birthday Grammie!  We are glad we finally got to celebrate with you!  We were also happy that the Packers won!  Caden ran around screaming, 'Go PACK!'

Wordless Wednesday

A Few More Snow Pics

I found a few more pictures from my phone that I had to share!  Here is Caden with a GIGANTIC icicle!We had fun throwing them in the pool!

Here he is with a medium-sized one.  He enjoyed throwing these in the street.

 Tim and another large icicle! 

Snow Days!!!

Unless you have been living under a rock, you know that we have had some C.R.A.Z.Y. weather here in Dallas/Plano.  Caden was sick last week and most of this week, so we (Caden and me) were home Monday through Friday!  Schools were closed for 4 days in a row!  RECORD!  We ventured out yesterday for a few minutes, but here are some good pictures from today.

Tim took these and caught Caden inside waving and ready to brave the weather!

 Look at our street!  We have never seen our street covered in snow like this!  Of course having a sheet of ice under it probably helped!

 Another view of the street.

 Caden's swing!

 The icicles were crazy long!

 I pulled out some beach toys and Daddy made a path of cars all the way around the flowerbeds!

 A plastic spoon provided tons of fun for Caden!  Here he is flinging snow up in the air.  You can see a chunk of it above his head in this picture.

 More snow flinging!

 Daddy's trail of 'snow cars'.

 They wound all around the side of the house too.

 Close up!

We had so much fun in the snow today.  The weather was gorgeous and there were no winds!  We are ready for it to melt though so we can get back into the swing of things!

Snow Cars Feb 5 2011

CARS!!!

Last week Caden got a once in a lifetime opportunity to see the cars from the CARS movie at Daddy's work.

Here he is with his favorite character Lightning McQueen!

Here he is with Mater!  Caden is actually sitting in my lap right now as I am posting this and he just said "Mommy?  Mater has big teeth, Lightning McQueen doesn't have big teeth."  So there you have it!

 He was so thrilled to be up close and personal with the real cars!

 

Here he is checking out the tires telling us that Guido and Luigi changes McQueen's tires.

Here are my 2 favorite guys walking through the hotel.  Caden had such a great time and is still talking about it.  I dressed him in his Cars shirt and told him we were going to Daddy's work for a surprise.  He had no idea what to expect as we followed Tim into the exhibit hall!  Priceless!

To top the week off, Grammie surprised him with a "just because" McQueen cake that she made!  He loved it and shouted, 'Yay!  It's my birthday party and I'm 4 years old!"  Cracked us all up!

Happy Birthday Grammie!

Happy Birthday Grammie!  We love you so much and cannot wait to celebrate with you whenever we all thaw out up here and the roads aren't so crazy!!!  Thank you for being such a great Grammie and for the delicious 'Just Because' CARS cake you brought Caden this week!  We love you!