Unbelievable

I ate lunch with the boys yesterday. They had dentist appts (and all but Cael was GOOD! Best visit ever!) so we went and got Subway and went to the school (that's what the boys wanted to do) Caden was so mad that he had to sit with the 3rd graders. He said he didn't want to eat with us, but wanted to be with his buddies. Buddies, buddies, buddies. That's all I heard for the next 10 min as he complained. 3rd graders came in first so he was sitting with us waiting for his class to come in. When they got there, he starts wrapping up his sandwich in record time, grabs a drink from the "community/family" drink and takes off. As he gets to the table, 5 boys have already sat down. He hits the closest boy on the shoulder and everyone erupts in joy that he is there. Someone throws him the basketball. He so cooly and GQ ey slides his sandwich to the other side of the table and does his signature Caden walk (half strut, half who knows what) to the other side, all while throwing the basketball from hand to hand like he is one cool cat! He is instantly swarmed with people fighting to sit by him. He sits down and starts talking like he is king of the world, and everyone hangs on every word. I just shake my head in... confusion. I told Chet that he is cool. He is way cooler than a 1st grader should be. He just knows what is cool to do. The way he slid his sandwich, walked, played with the basketball, all of it. He is a very loud animated person, so he tells these outrageous stories with lots of personality. Problem is... he knows he's cool. We have to keep his heart the size of Texas, and not his head. He told me today that Zaine was crying yesterday at school because, "He likes me so much, and I just can't go to his party (because we are having a party tonight so he is going to another friends to be watched) and that made him sad." I don't know if that's true or not, but what the heck!!! Really!