Still praying....

Ok several weeks have passed and we are still praying for the mean girl but we have since added a mean boy. Last week at church I guess a little boy in the child care was not so nice to Cash and he would not apologize. So when I picked Cash up, when he saw me he immediately started to cry because his feelings were so hurt. I think it was more the fact the little boy wouldn't apologize for hitting him. So I asked the boy to apologize and he looked right at me and said "no". Since then when we say prayers at night or on the way to school Cash chimes in say prayers for the mean boy and the mean girl. And say the prayers first mommy.  So we are still praying for these two little ones who have hurt my sons feelings, I hope he lets go soon. I keep asking him- do we need to keep praying for them and he said yes.

here is my little blue man. We were invited to Eden's house and the kids had fun making a paste with chalk and water. It was the last weekend before school started. Just never got around to posting these.

love!

Well, I am sure you already knew I was in love with my little boy, but today he said something that told me he is in love with me as well.
We were on our way into our favorite store, Target. I was carrying him close and I leaned into him and said how much I loved spending time with him and I was so thrilled he was with me on my errands and he said., " yeah, I don't want anyone to take me!" and I said yes- definitely we dont want anyone to take you away.  And the I told him he was the best little boy and he told me I was his best friend. And he said he loved me. It was a very sweet moment.

Birthday parties

He wouldn't ride the horse without dad- but didn't need his help to pick his nose

We have been to quite a few birthday parties lately and there are more to come in the next few weekends. Here Cash is at the party that was on a farm. Totally fun!

I just like this sweet smile!

little cowboy

enthusiastic about eating ketchup!

being a mom of a boy

Ok, so today, being a mom of a boy, there seems to be just certain situations I just don't know how to handle. They seem like very boy like situations and I don't know where they stem from. I dont know if it is normal. I don't know how to deter it? I am confused at times and at a loss. For example tonight, he wanted me to play with his toys with him.... " Mom, you be Optimus Prime and I will be Bumble Bee and I will kill you."  Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, OK? I don't think I like that idea. Mommy doesn't play that way. Optimus Prime and Bumble Bee are friends and they are both good guys.  I am trying....

Thankfully, I just started a bible study at my church and it is called Wisdom for Mothers based on Motherwise. All I can say is dear Lord please make me wise.

shaving

I am sure I wont get this story completely correct as it is second hand knowledge from dad. But the other day he was shaving his head and right now he has a beard on his face. Cash walks in and says "dad, your pee-pee has a beard", are you going to shave it?

Still praying....

Hey by the way- a week later and he is still suggesting we pray for that mean girl. What an impact, huh?

A little disappointing...

Ok- darn right annoyed..... Our church had someone take pictures of each of the kids for the classroom. And then they also gave copies to the parents. How nice, right? Well, it is a nice gesture. I was kind of excited as I waited for the coordinator to hand me Cash's photo and then she handed me this. At first I was like Awwww..... And then I was like Ohhhhh.....  Poor little guy smiled terrible too hard and thus looks not so cute. And we all know he is so cute, right? Anyway, I just keep thinking, the photographer probably used a digital camera and he probably could have seen he was smiling awefully hard. I mean how hard would it have been to ask the child to just take another picture and not smile so hard this time?
Anyway- when I picked Cash up from Sunday school, I said- look Cash, I have your picture. He was super agitated and frowned and pushed it away. Poor guy- even he knew it was not so flattering. And he probably already saw it up on the wall in the Sunday school classroom. I am tempted to draw a mustache on his face and grafitti the picture- but that wouldn't be too nice of me would it.  Poor little guy! And photographer, I am annoyed with you.

dad brought him Iron Man

Dad was on a business trip and brought home an Iron Man costume for Cash. He likes it so much, maybe I wont have to make him a doughnut costume after all.  Don't you like his rocket boots?

First day of School

first day of school

First day in the classroom

Saying prayers....

Today we were at McDonalds and Cash was running around playing in the play area. There was this mean little girl. You could kind of tell she must be the way she is because she has an older brother who beats on her. Anyway- she was hitting at Cash, and agitating him. If he was coming down the slide, she would get at the bottom and not let him pass by her. Just pestering him, getting in his way. I caught them both swinging at each other and he would say- she is hitting me. And I told him, walk away or tell her to stop but she would still go after him. I even gave her the evil eye once when she was starting to follow him and she glared back at me with this smirk like she knew what she was doing. Anyway, finally I told him we were leaving. We left, and in the car ride home I told him, some people are mean in the world and that you just need to walk away. That or tell them three times to stop and if they don't then you can give them a taste of their medicine.
So tonight, we said prayers. And he wanted to get down and kneel to say his prayers. I asked him who he wanted to pray for. And he told me himself, Tyler, Joshua, Daddy, mommy and the mean girl. But after we kneeled down he told me to pray for the mean girl first. And so we did.

Something fell

Today we stopped at Angela's (babysitter) house. Diane and Tony (parents) were home. Diane was showing me their kitchen redo. The cabinet doors were off and all the stuff in the kitchen was piled into their dining room. And they had the doorway into the dining room blocked. Stuff was piled everywhere. You could say perhaps it looked like a disaster in there. But understandable of course. Anyway, Cash leans over and is just looking and everything in the dining room and he is trying to get my attention, Mom, Mom.... I finally say - what honey, and he says MOM, Something fell in here.  Diane and I laughed.

your fired!

Today we were leaving a friends house and Cash got into a bit of a spat with his friend Max. And I said Cash, Max is your friend, you don't do that to your friend, we get a long with our friends. And he said I am firing Max.

Not sure how he came up with that one, but it made us all laugh. Because it was appropriately used - he decided he wanted to fire him as a friend. I am not worried though- they will be friends next time.

So sad.....

Look at what I have to look at- how can you resist that face?  This was his SAD face after I told him that Joshua was not going to come over to play. It wasn't that I was punishing him, It was that Joshua physically was not able to come over to play because he was doing something else.

Anyway- he worked himself up and this is what it looks like. It was actually worse, but it got softened a bit as I fumbled for my camera photo to take the picture.

don't say stupid

We have been trying to teach Cash that stupid is not a good word to say.  Because we mainly don't want him to call his friends stupid. Unfortunately Shawn and myself have a habit of calling inanimate things stupid, you know like- I can't get this stupid can open. Or in Shawn's case today when he said - get out of my way - stupid car.  And little ears in the back seat heard and were in the back to promptly say, Dad- we don't say stupid. And Dad said- you are right- I am sorry we don't say stupid. Cash then proceeded to say, dad you can say "excuse me out of my way" and we agreed that would be a much better way to say it.  Shawn said- he often times thanks God for these little reminders that the ears are always listening....

embarrassing moments

So we were outside talking to my neighbor. And I picked up Cash and as I was talking Cash starts pushing on my breast. And when I try to non-chalantly brush away, he says, I push your boobies mommy.
Oh great! Right in front of my neighbor. Who half heartedly says- he knows what he is supposed to be doing....
Embarrassing....

Photos of Cash from Dad's view

So I left for the bathroom and Daddy snapped a few photos of Cash. I am very impressed since most days he wont even touch my camera to take a picture. But I thought he did a great job and I loved the pictures! And of course Cash seemed more cooperative than he sometimes is for me.

Here he is through the eyes of his Dad!  A lot can happen in a few minutes...

Love this. Really cool!

love this with the reflection and little kid under his arm is like hey- what are you doing?

This is what Cash usually does to me- gets right in the lens

rocket boy

Cash likes to put on boots. It makes him think he is Rocket Boy. Tonight he wanted to wear his red and blue rain boots to bed. I let him wear them while I read him his books but then when it came time to get under the covers. I made him take them off. He said Rocket Boy wears boots. I told him he wasn't Rocket Boy and I took the boots off and put them by the bed and told them they would be there for him in the morning.
I went to check on him and change his diaper. And when I pulled back the covers, I couldn't figure out why his legs weren't moving. And there they were- his rocket boots. He was wearing them to bed.

like father, like son

This cracks me up.
Father and Son are wearing the same expression.

more on Cash

More pictures of Cash in Hawaii.... we are in Lahaina and the second one he is standing in the big Banyan tree there in Lahaina