School lunches

Cael is my pickiest eater. He is sooooo hard. I worry about him not getting enough nutrition from his carb loaded diet. Breads and sweets. Making him a school lunch is near impossible. It's hard to pack him ramen and spaghetti o's. The only sandwich he will eat is a ham sandwich. However if it's not made in the correct way, he will NOT eat it. Some might say to not let the tail wag the dog. He would literally starve before eating food that's touched each other, or a sandwich made incorrectly. So you have to put: liquid, mustard, ham, fold. Wheat bread with mayo (that's the liquid). No cutting. You fold the bread. So you have an idea of how picky he is now! At school they were having nachos so he asked if he could have school lunch like his buddies. I was worried so I said yes and then got him a pizza from subway and came into lunch to make sure he would get to eat. I sat and watched this boy who won't eat ANY veggies chowing down on his carrots and other veggies and they actually had cheese quesadillas and he ate it all. Since that day he has eaten school lunch every day. He eats dinner so much better than ever! He eats seconds (that's never happened. He's truly a bird!!) his size 5 that he was wearing when school started is WAY too small! His size 6 are not big for sure!!! I think he's gained about 5-7 lbs in two months. My neighbor kiddingly asked me if I ever feed him because even his chin was skinny! He's still skinny but he's filling in. And getting some muscle, which only excites him even more to want to eat his veggies. I never thought school lunch would solve our eating problem!!! Yah!!!

Can you see it?!?

Cael came running into my room the other day in a panic! His eyes were as wide as possible, and he says, "Mom! Can you see my muscle? Can you see it!?! It's finally there! Can you see it?" All the while he is flexing his arm. He has finally gotten a line under his bicep and is beyond excited! It is so dang funny to me with all these boys and their muscles. He is growing up so fast. Something crazy happens when they start school! They just shoot up and mature so much. He's still my Cael bug. And still one of my babies!!!!

Sorry...that was me!

While dressing Cael for church Sunday he farted. He raised his eyebrows high and says, "sorry. That was me, that was not you." Um... Yeah!!! It was like it slipped out, but I already knew it wasn't me, thanks! I think it's because their dad blames them every time he does! Silly boys and their farts.

I'm Your Favorite

The other night after dinner, we had two tasks. 1 - Play bingo with Cael and his sight words (with the use of skittles and PB M&Ms.) and 2 - Clean up dinner. I asked Chet which he would rather do and he chose bingo. The table emptied to the livingroom to play bingo. Caden was still sitting there finishing up so I told him that he would be helping me tonight with the dishes. He didn't say anything and just got up and started helping. After a while, he comes over to me and says in a whisper, "Did you choose me to help you because I'm your favorite?" I nodded and said, "Yep!" He got this cute little sly smile and said, "I thought so!" and he continued to help. As soon as he was finished, he ran over to the bingo game and started playing with them. Oh my goodness I love it! I heard Pres Hinkley say once that all of them thought they were their parents favorite. I remember thinking that was really awesome. I love that my boys now think the same!