Caedee can READ!

Caedee was reading to me on the trip to daycare. She wasn't just regurgitating some book I'd read to her 100 times.... she was reading. She picked up a random piece of paper (my car is usually filled with random pieces of paper from her school) and was looking at it. The she said "Caedee Walker, MOM! This paper has my name on it!" while pointing at her name towards the end of the list. "Yes, that's a list of all the kids in your class and their phone numbers. Do you see any other names you recognize?". "Kiara! Hunter!" She was pointing around the paper and reading the names, correctly! We got to another K name, "what's this one mom?" "Katie" "But it starts with a K..."

Disney World

Man, Disney know's how to host a vacation and they do it on an epic scale. We stayed on the resort and got the meal plan. This meant that I only really had to carry around my room key which also served to deduct meal points. It was more than enough food and got Caedee all kinds of cool snacks, including about 10 character Pez dispensers. It was all handled and very stress free.

Day 1 we arrived and headed straight to Magic Kingdom... we saw Mickey and Minnie's houses in Toon Town and watched the light Parade. I got a good spot and thought I might pass out trying to hold Caedee up on my shoulders, that parade is pretty darn long!

Day 2 we went to Animal Kingdom. I would have liked to do more there but Caedee got tired pretty quick... (Should have come up with the rent a stroller idea sooner) We wandered into the Lion King show there and it was pretty awesome. Caedee said it was better than the light parade... I don't know about that, but it was a pretty good show. We walked out to find Safari Donald, Mickey, Minnie and Goofy. We explored a little more. Then we went back to the hotel to swim and then headed to Epcot. I really wanted to see Epcot, but Caedee could only think about meeting Tinkerbell... so we went back to Magic Kingdom and met Tinkerbell after a loooong wait. She was with Silvermist and Fawn. Caedee was scared to actually meet them, she just wanted to stand back and look. But when we got in there Silvermist walked right over to Caedee and chatted her up... Caedee was so excited then and actually posed for pictures with the fairies.

Day 3 we hit Epcot again. This is where we rode our first rides, the Sea (Nemo ride), the Land, and Spaceship Earth. After a couple hours Caedee was ready to leave again, but I wanted to see Epcot. I rented a stroller and handed Caedee the camera with instructions to take pictures of anything cool. We have about 100 kid eye level pictures of Epcot's different countries and it let me check things out and she still had fun. I think we saw the most characters at Epcot. Mickey, Minnie, Goofy, Donald, Chip and Dale, Beauty and the Beast, Alice (from Wonderland). ALL the characters have a small waiting line to get Autograph's and pictures. We never waited in line for anyone other than Mickey, the fairies and the princesses. After we'd had enough Epcot (it was HOT and we were TIRED) we headed back to the hotel for a swim. By the time it was done swimming a big storm blew up... that was fine with us we needed an evening with our feet up!

Day 4 we headed back to the Magic Kingdom because Caedee couldn't think of anything other than meeting Cinderella. I took the long way and coaxed her into riding Pirates of the Carribean, Magic Carpets, The Haunted Mansion (too scary she didn't like it), It's a small world (she loved it!) Finally we went and met the Princesses and Tinkerbell (along with Rosetta and Irredessa this time). After that we ate and shopped a little. Before I could finish getting the last of our souvineers, it started pouring rain. Caedee freaked out at first as we attempted to get into ponchos... After she saw some other kids puddle stomping I told her she could stop the puddles too and she had a ball in the rain. Its a good thing because it rained so much it flooded some of the resort roads and we had to wait about 30 minutes for a bus back to the hotel... This was by far the longest we ever waited for a bus... usually it was only 5 or 10 minutes and they were not full and crowded.

More Disney World

Just about to meet TinkerBell (day 4)

OMG Talking to Tink! (Day 4). She noticed Caedee was wearing Tinkerbell shoes and got down on the floor to check them out.



Meeting Irredessa

Silvermist made a big impact... she's actually her favorite doll, but I think Tink is her favorite pixie (day 4).

More Disney World

End of day 2 in front of the Epcot fountain

Caedee snapped this one of me in front of the Epcot fountain (day 2).

Cinderella's castle

Meeting Cinderella (day 4)

More Disney.

Meeting Silvermist (night 2)

Cruisin' Epcot in a rental stroller much more comfy! (day 3)

Renter stroller day 4 with new Tink sunglasses (day 4)

Just met the princesses (day 4)

DISNEY WORLD!

Mickey and Minnie were the first characters we met (day 1)... they freaked Caedee out...



Posing at Animal Kingdom (day 2)

Trying to keep cool (day 2)

Napping at Epcot (evening day 2)

Weekend with the family

We went to Neosho Friday night and stayed all weekend.



This is how Caedee and Grandma decided to beat the heat... Then the rest of us joined in.

They turned around and splashed me right after I took this one.



Then Grandma whispered in Caedee's ear and told her to get papa...

Then we stopped to see Derek, Maggie and Spencer on the way home Sunday afternoon.

Ready for fishin!

Caedee fell in love with fishing over Memoral Day at the lake. She now owns a Dora fishing rod and a Barbie tackel box crammed full of cool (mostly pink) baits! She's also got a fishing license... why does the state require a fishing license for a 4 yr old???

Republic Fireworks Show

The blue fuzzy ball incident.

Today I got a call from school. "I think Caedee's stuck a craft ball up her nose" the teacher tells me, "she seems ok though". "She isn't crying?" I ask. "No, I'll let you talk to her... Caedee!".

Caedee comes on... "Caedee, did you stick something up your nose?" I say, trying not to laugh. My coworkers can hear everything and they are all asking "WHAT?!!" and laughing. I tell her to keep trying to blow her nose and get it out. She hangs up on me.

I called her Drs office to find out if they could handle this sort of thing... because apparently it was WAY up there and the teacher could no longer see it. Yes, they do handle that sort of thing. Quite often apparently. And I can bring her right in.

So I go pick her up... When I see her, she looks normal, not upset, not crying, not in pain. I ask, "are you sure there is something up your nose?" I know there definately is when she answers because she sounds like she's got a cold... then her right eye begins to water. I ask to look, but definitely nothing to see. So, we head to the Dr.

They shined a flash light up there and there it is, a little blue fuzz ball. The Dr came in and it took about 30 seconds to pull it out. I asked them to let me take a picture... just for this purpose. There was no way to take a picture of it actually in her nose. It was too dark of a shade of blue.



"Why did you stick the blue fuzzy ball up your nose?"

"Because I wanted too."

School work (ok, pre-pre school)

Caedee drew this last week.. we were all astonished. Awesome work!

Caedee colored this dinosaur last week. They have been studying dinosaurs and volcanoes.

May!

Went for a walk one evening and picked daisies... I love this picture of us.

Another evening spent on the porch waiting for the hummingbirds to come eat. We have at least 3 regular visitors.

We like daisies!

Blowing bubbles at the park

Nice afternoon to play in the yard.

At the park

Took these a couple weeks ago in April.