Thursday, August 13, 2020

Art Time

We have been needing a regular schedule in our lives. So we started doing our own little "school days". I have noticed that Kadee is less likely to get into trouble - or as we say, make bad choices - when we have a routine schedule. So our week looks like this:

Monday - Laundry Day

Tuesday - School Day

Wednesday - School Day

Thursday - School Day

Friday - Cleaning Day

Saturday  - "Play with Daddy Day"

Every day starts with breakfast. Then a 2 mile walk (sometimes more), except for Saturdays. I attempt to run a mile on Saturday mornings. We walk to a playground, play around for a while, and then walk home. 

On "school days" it looks like this:

8:00 breakfast

8:30 walk

9:00 playground

9:45 - 10:00 get home, read a scripture story

10:15 Kadee picks what we should learn about. An animal, plant, place, and food.

10:45 Snack/Jackson goes down for a nap (that one is important)

11:00 Art time and "word of the day"

12:30 Lunch (Well... lunch is usually whenever Spencer gets home, but that's pretty close.)

After that we usually just play outside.

I have loved it though. It's been better for all of us. But Kadee's favorite thing is definitely art time. I'm glad we have discovered how much she loves painting and drawing and creating. I love doing it too and since that's when Jackson is asleep, it's perfect for me and Kadee. We've done some great art times and have amassed a good collection on our "art wall".










Green Beans

We don't have a spot for a real garden, (yet) so we tried a little container gardening. I figured green beans would be a good starting project. But the last snow we had was the second week of May so our bean plants started inside. Then they moved out when it got warmer. I think next year I'll start them inside even sooner than I did. We only had 4 little plants that made it outside.





Kadee was super excited to help me pick the first green beans. Then she and Jackson promptly ate them all for lunch the next day.

Wednesday, August 5, 2020

Stuff Kadee Says

This girl cracks us up and we don't want to forget all of the gems she says! This is what she's said since moving to North Dakota.

October 2, 2019
Me: "Maybe we can get some chicken alfredo."
Kadee: "Chicken Freedo?!?!! THAT'S WHAT WE NEED!!"

October 6, 2019
Me: "How many pieces of French toast do you want?"
Kadee: "12."

October 10, 2019
Kadee: "Did you fart?!!"
Me: "No. Did you?"
Kadee: ".............Yeah!"

Kadee: "I pooped!"
Me: "That's a lot of poop."
Kadee: "Yeah cause I ate a bagel and a cookie and 2 corn dogs."

October 15, 2019
"We can take Bwed! and Turkey! And cheese! And Salwed! And Bwed! And fold it, it's a SANDWICH!"

October 16, 2019
"You can get me some more oatmeal and then we'll both have oatmeal and then we can both snuggle in the chair with our both oatmeal."

"Last day, when I ate dinner at someone's house, I just got cookie whisker crumbs all over my face!"

October 18, 2019
Me: "Mommy put too much syrup on your pancake."
Kadee: "I can fix that! Eat da syrup!"

October 23, 2019
"Oh THAT'S what's wrong with it! It's not working. That's what's wrong."

November 1, 2109
"If it doesn't fit that way, try a new way. If it doesn't fit that way, just squish them."

November 8, 2019
Me: "Why are you kicking me?"
Kadee: "I'm not. I'm push'n ya with my foot."

November 10, 2019
"What? I'm not getting another cookie. I'm just walking past the cookies."

November 18, 2019
"I'm hungry. I want you to feed me because I'm hungry."

November 20, 2019
Me (in the shower): "Kadee? Why is Jackson hollering?"
Kadee: "Oh. He's stuck in my heffalump trap."

November 26, 2019
"This is my chair pie throne."
















December 1, 2019
Me: "If Jackson is a chunky monkey, what does that make Kadee?"
Kadee: "A Pippo Hippo!"

December 3, 2019
 "Guess what. I slept in my room but my bed was not comfty enough. So I went to your room, and guess what! Your bed was comfty enough!"

Me: (shaking Kadee's hand) "Hello. How are you today?"
Kadee: "Oh. I'm 3."

"When Santa tells his reindeer to 'YAH!' they just won't go."

December 4, 2019
"Sorry, Dad." (turns to me) "I bumped Dad's bebberage."

December 5, 2019
"Mommy! I was thinking. I wanted a party to celebrate!"

December 11, 2019
Kadee: "I need your blankie. I'm cold."
Me: "Maybe you should put on some clothes."
Kadee: "Oh no. Not that."

"I sot you needed to take a nap so I just knocked you down so you can take a nap."

"I wish I met a giraffe that can hop off rocks."

December 12, 2019
Me: "Kadee, you need to wear clothes."
Kadee: "No. Big girls don't like to wear clothes. They like to wear jammies."

December 18, 2019
Kadee: "Fire and water!!"
Me: "Fire and water?? You're fire and water."
Kadee: "... Well YOU'RE juice and milk!!"

December 28, 2019
Kadee: "Where does Brynne live?"
Me: "In Utah."
Kadee: "No. She lives at the soccer field."

December 30, 2019
"I hurt my bum ankle."

January 2, 2020
Kadee showing me her shopping list: "We need cream cheese and donuts!"
Me: "Why?"
Kadee: "Because I like donuts. Donuts make me happy!"

February 4, 2020
"Thank you, Mom. I would have done it without you."
(she mean "couldn't have done it without you")

February 9, 2020
Spencer: "Kadee, you've had too many biscuits."
Kadee: "I apologize. Could I have some more?"

February 15, 2020
Me: "Waaaa! I'm tired. I want to go to bed!"
Kadee (taking my hand): "It's ok. Don't worry. I will put you to bed."
Me: "I have to go potty."
Kadee: "Ok. But YOU have to wipe your own bum!"

Febrary 21, 2020
"There is only 1 point. If you lose, you'll not win."

February 24, 2020
*hears odd sounds*
Me: "Kaaaaddeeeeee???"
Kadee: "Just don't worry!"

February 26, 2020
"I need to do some work at home today."














February 28, 2020
Kadee: "WIIIIIIIIPE MYYYYYYY BUUUMMMMM!"
Me: "Wooo! Did you poop?!"
Kadee: "Oh no. I left a fart for ya."

March 3, 2020
(We're playing "zoo" and Kadee lets rip a big fart.)
Me: "Ew! Kadee!"
Kadee: "What? It was the zoo animals!"

Kadee: "I'm building a house" (Loudly burps)
Me: "Are there burps in your house?"
Kadee: "No, just me. There are burps in me."

March 4, 2020
(Kadee to her stuffed animal,)
"I pick you up, you cry. I put you down, you cry. I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU WANT!"

March 6, 2020
"I used my clothes for a blankie all day. They're like blankies that stay on your stomach."

March 14, 2020
Kadee: "You know what ghosts are scared of? They're scared of Kadee."
Me: "I don't think there are really any ghosts."
Kadee: "Well I'm makin' one."

March 18, 2020
Me: "I'm afraid Daddy and Jackson caught a little bug."
Kadee: "If they caught a bug, Mommy would be like, Aaah! A bug!! AAAAAAHHHH!!!"

March 23, 2020
Spencer: "Do you remember Enos?"
Kadee: "Ya."
Spencer: "What did he do?"
Kadee: "He prayed."
Spencer: "For how long?"
Kadee: "TOO LONG!"

March 29, 2020
Me: "Kadee, which song do you want to sing?"
Kadee: "Families are stuck together."

April 16, 2020
(Kadee has a drum stick in a water bottle going thunk, thunk, thunk.)
Me: "Kadee, what are ya doing?"
Kadee: "Oh. I'm makin' butter."

April 17, 2020
(while wiping my child's butt)
Kadee: "Thanks Mom. I'm so proud of you."
Me: "....... Thanks Kadee."

April 28, 2020
"The bad guys are coming! GOOGLE, FIRE THE CANNON!!"

May 1 , 2020
"When I'm bigger I can ride the bike with Dad and you can sit in the trailer!"

May 4, 2020
(very loud and obviously conniving voice)
"Oh! I hope Mommy doesn't try any sausage! Cause then I'll have to share!"

May 5, 2020
(you have to pretend you're rapping in your head)
"I need help! I need help! I need help! I need help! I'm slippin' in the potty, slippin' in the potty, slippin' in the potty cause I gotta hold my dress up. I gotta hold my dress up! I gotta hold my dress up! I need help! I need help! I need help!"

May 25, 2020
Spencer: "Do you remember Alma?"
Kadee: "Yup."
S: "Who was he?"
K: "A good guy."
S: "Do you remember King Noah?"
K: "Yup."
S: "Who was he?"
K: "A bad guy."
S: "Do you remember who Abinadi was?"
K: "Yup."
S: "And what did he do?"
K: "He told them to stop bad guy-ing."

May 27, 2020
Me: "Maybe some time Kadee, Mommy, and Jackson can visit Grandma while Daddy is at work."
Kadee: "Oh no! We can't leave Daddy here. He has to go with us. He's a part of our family! I don't want to leave him!"

May 28, 2020
(Kadee eats breakfast, gets dressed, immediately come to find me.)
"Ok, let's have lunch now."

June 11, 2020
Me: "Get the spatula out of my bed!"
Kadee: "I'm a guard. And guards have a spatula."
Me: "Oh. Since when?"
Kadee: "Um... Since Tuesday."

June 14, 2020
"But when I'm a burrito, it doesn't taste very good. BLEH!"

June 19, 2020
"My stomach is playing volleyball with all of my muffins in my stomach."

June 23, 2020
"..and the doctor said, no more monkeys jumping on the bed. So monkey jumped on Daddy and the Daddy said, get off now. And the monkey said, no no no!"

June 26, 2020
"FREAKING GASPURTS!!"

July 16, 2020
(Kadee's imaginary friend of the day asked her if she could have a fish.)
Kadee: "Did you make good choices today?"

July 24, 2020
"Mom! I found a fly. It's my friend. I named it Genevieve.|

July 26, 2020
(We're watching "Snow White" and Snow White bites the apple and falls to the ground.)
Kadee: "Oh no! But now Grumpy can't get his pie!"

July 30, 2020
"...and they fold their legs and cross their arms and pretend that they are pooping. Oops! I Peed! Darn. I guess this was the wrong time to show you how 3 year olds lay an egg."

August 4, 2020
"No I can't go to bed. I'm too busy figuring out what to make for Brynne that she would enjoy!"

"Mom, it looks like I'm going to have to draw Brynne's card all night. So it looks like caffeine."

August 5, 2020
"I'm just glad I don't have to eat any spicy lemons or limens."

Monday, August 3, 2020

May The 4s Be With You

Kadee girl turned 4 years old! I can't even believe she is that old already. It's probably just me though. She is a very tall 4 year old. We are so glad she is in our family and we are so proud of her and all the things she is learning. Kadee told me she wanted a haircut for her birthday so we made that happen on Wednesday.


She wanted an Ahsoka birthday so we made that happen for her. Well, to the best of our abilities. Balloons by Misti helped make it super awesome!


 Kadee got some money from Grandma Wallace in a birthday card so she picked out a green lightsaber and a pink purse for herself at the store.


Jackson doesn't care about Star Wars as much as his sister does.


Bertoches Come to ND

My family wasn't sure if they were going to be able to come visit us because the base had restrictions on visitors for quite a while due to COVID. But they made it! Kadee and Jackson were sooo happy to have someone besides just Mom at home. We went on lots of walks, we checked out the Red River downtown, Grandpa took us all out to breakfast, we shopped at the mall, and it was super hot and humid during all of it. We had a good time though.


























Kadee also got to have an early birthday with Grandma and Grandpa there. She isn't spoiled at all.


Kadee said her favorite part was taking pictures with Brynne. Silly girl. 




She also really loved having Grandpa read to her.




We played hard and everyone observed the Sabbath the best way we know how!