We love Marbles!!!

We love to go to the children's museum Marbles. We recently went with our friends The Barbours. Cailey, Braden, Kinsey, Caden and Caroline had so much fun exploring the museum. Caroline loved taking care of the babies and putting them in and out of the ambulance. Caden spent a lot of time putting packages on the mail truck. I pretended to be the customer and he took care of my packages. We also liked doing puzzles, cooking, dressing up for a show and going upstairs to see the weather exhibit. Oh, we met our friends Jack and Sam up there. We were happy to play with them also. We can't wait to go back to Marbles again!!!!

Voting

We all went to vote on election day. I took a picture of Brandon and Caden voting because we also have one of them voting in 2004 right after Caden was born. The lady was mad at me this time for taking the picture so luckily I did get one good picture before having to put the camera away.
We explained to Caden why we were voting for McCain. He was very interested in why people were voting for him instead of Obama. I tried to explain it the best I could in 4 year old language. A few days later my dad came over to eat dinner. Caden asked him if he voted for Barack Obama. Paw Paw said, "what if I did". I was nervous to hear what Caden would say next. He said, "that would be very bad Paw Paw." We all laughed for a long time.

Fun with Play dough!

The kids love playing with play dough. Caroline loves trying to eat it! Actually she did a lot better this time. She really did try to make things with the dough. Caden could play with it for hours. He loves to create the "hair" and then give it a cut (all over the floor).

#1 Swimmer

Caden took swimming lessons from Ms. Laura for two months. He learned how to swim by himself. He can almost swim the length of the pool. They were working on side breathing and the back float. It is amazing to see what a great swimmer he became in just two months. We are taking a couple of months off and then start up again in January.

Halloween

Halloween lasted a few days in our house. Caden and Caroline enjoyed being able to wear their costumes several times. Caden was a frog (he loves frogs and the color green). Caroline was the adorable Nemo. She didn't even mind having the fish head on which I really thought she'd pull off in seconds.
We started the weekend by going to a pool party in our neighborhood that didn't turn out to be too great. There were about 10 kids. Our kids enjoyed getting candy and playing on the playground.
The next day we went to our friend Brooke's house. All of our friends were there dressed up. Caden especially enjoyed playing with his "girlfriend" Sydney/Goldie Locks.
Halloween night we started out eating pizza with MawMaw and PawPaw and Grandma and Grandpa. Then we all went Trick-or-Treating. Wow! Caden loved it. He was running from house to house trying to get as much candy as possible. We usually go to church also, but this night Caden said that he just wanted to get more candy. Caroline, MawMaw, PawPaw and Mommy all went home early. Everyone else stayed out late getting candy. Caden was so proud of his huge bowl.