Brayden's First Day of Kindergarten!

Our days of having no kids in school are over. Today Brayden started kindergarten! He has been so excited, but got overwhelmed when we got there. He did great tho! On the drive there he kept saying "mom, quit freaking out", guess I was a little nervous too. When we got there I convinced him to let me take a picture of him infront of the school, he said this was the only time, he was not too happy with me. Then they paired each kindergartener up with a 5th or 6th grader and went out to the quad to get in line with their teacher to go to class. I was getting ready to leave when the principal said "Parents give your child a hug it is time to go to class." So I told Brayden bye and started to walk off, I turned around one last time and he was motioning me to come back, so I walked back and knelt down infront of him and he was trying so hard not to cry. It broke my heart!! He was stressing out because he didn't know his teacher, and he was afraid he would get left or lost or something. I reassured him he would be fine and reminded him his "friend" would make sure he got to his class. I kissed him bye and told him he would be fine and left. I think he was still a little nervouse, but I know he will do great! I am so anxious to go get him to see how his first day was! I got back to the car called BJ and started bawling! I thought I would be fine, but it was hard. Then my mom and neighbor called to see how it all went so that helped too. I just love family and good neighbors!!

Brayden's soccer and Birthday

It has been a weekend to celebrate Brayden, today is his 6th birthday!! I can't believe my baby is 6, he is getting so grown up and starts school Tuesday! He is so excited to go to kindergarten. Before he has to start school he got to celebrate his birthday. Yesterday the 25th was a very busy day and started at 9:00 am with Brayden's soccer game. This is his first year playing soccer and I am a little biast being his mom, but I think he might take after his dad and be a natural! He has only had 3 games and has already scored 4 goals(1 for the other team. He forgot after half time you switch goals, but it was a sweet goal anyways!) He is doing so good and we are so proud of him. 3 of the goals he scored yesterday which put his birthday weekend off to a great start. After the game we had to get ready for his friend party. He had a dinosaur party. We made dinosaurs out of playdo, played pin the horn on the 3 horn, a dino egg relay and of course a T-rex pinata!! Our wonderful neighbors Julianne and Brandon made Brayden's birthday cake, and it was amazing!! Brandon made a volcano with dinosaurs around it, it was so cool. Brayden kept telling everyone it was the best birthday cake ever made! So thanks Brandon and Julianne you are the best!! After the birthday party we had a ward party. The kids had so much fun running around with all the kids from the ward. We stayed much longer than I anticipated and I almost was too late to order the pizzas for his birthday dinner today(26th). Luckily I still had 20 minutes before they closed so we were all good. For his family party my mom and dad, Kevin, Jed, Maegen, Shalene, and Jef came over for dinner and cake and ice cream. He got way too spoiled but had a great birthday!! Thanks everyone for coming and the presents!

My three dinosaurs

(Jace got his nose off right before I took the picture, darn!)

Brayden's birthday is next week and so we went to the party store to decide what kind of party to have. He decided on a dinosaur party so I had done some research to see what games we could play. I found a fun little relay game so we bought some dinosaur noses to go with it. As soon as we got home they wanted to play in all the stuff we had got, so I let them open the dinosaur noses. It was so funny! Anyone who knows Brayden knows he is pretty good at making dinosaur noises and runs like them etc.. So Brayden and Adi each put on a nose and started walking around the house like dinosaurs, so of course Jace had to get in on it too. I put the nose on Jace and he took off running and making this horrible growling noise, it was so funny. I guess in order to be in our family you have to be able to imitate a dinosaur, must be a pre requisite before coming down! I don't know!!

First "lost" tooth

Brayden lost his first tooth on Sunday! It has been loose for a few weeks and Saturday night it was very loose, but wouldn't come out. Sunday morning he was downstairs watching tv and came running up the stairs and said "look mom, my tooth". I couldn't believe it. I asked how he got it out and he said I don't know. I think he was just playing with it subconciously and it just fell out. He was very happy. He has another loose one but it still hasn't come out yet. At church he was telling all his friends "look, I have a lost tooth". It sounded pretty funny, but he was very proud!

Since I was taking pictures of Brayden, Adi insisted I take one of her. Now I know it looks like she lost a tooth too, but no, that is just her natural space. Her dad likes to tease her about her chicklets! And since she does have a space like Brayden she is telling people she lost a tooth too! It is pretty funny!!