The Polar Express is in Lubbock and we got to take a ride to the North Pole! Everyone had a great time. You should have seen everyone's face when the train started moving. Kelton was so funny because he was worried about the train going backwards on the way to the North Pole. He informed us that the engine is supposed to pull not push! He was so happy on the way back that we were moving the right way. On the way to the North Pole the conductor walked around the train and punched all of the tickets. Then they gave us cookies and hot chocolate (or bottled water). Jace and Gage both thought that they just had to have the hot chocolate, but I don't think either one had more than that first drink. I think that they were playing the story of the Polar Express on the way to the North Pole. There was so much going on that I did not pay attention to it though. When we pulled up to the North Pole there were elves dancing and Santa was waiting for us. Santa and his elves joined us on the train! All of the kids told Sanata what they want for Christmas this year and Santa gave them all a bell! On the way back Santa walked around talking to the kids and the elves sang Christmas carols with us.

Thank you Grammy for taking us on a great adventure!

I took lots of pictures so if you are interested go here.

As of today, Jace is 21 months old. Is he too young to be ready for potty training? For awhile now he has been telling us when he is poopy or asking us to change his diaper when he is wet. We just thought that maybe he would be easy to train when the time came. We did not imagine that time would come before he turned 2.

After lunch today Jace walked into the bathroom and tried to pull his pants down. I asked if he needed to go potty and he said yes. He has had Brent put him on the potty a couple times over the past couplle of weeks, but he never went potty. So I put him on the potty and after sitting on there for a long time he went poopy! Everyone was so excited!





He wanted to flush over and over again!

I love to hear that Caden is a good girl even when Brent and I are not around! Last week I sat down with Caden's teacher to hear about how well she is doing at school. Mrs. Rankin had lots of great things to say. Caden is able to recognize all of her shapes, knows all of the days of the week and can write her own name. She can recognize all of the letters of the alphabet except Q, L and V. When asked if she can say all of the months in a year she said, "January, February, March, April, June 11th." Too cute. She even skipped the month that she was born. We will have to work on those. We also need to work on yesterday and tomorrow. Caden can easily say the days of the week in order but if you say today is Monday so what day is tomorrow (or yesterday), she usually doesn't know the right answer. Mrs. Rankin says she is really good at cutting for her age. She can cut along a straight line, curved line, zig zag line and a wavy line. Even though Caden can easily write her name, she still needs to learn how to write in upper and lower case letters and how to write the letters correctly in the lines. Caden also got an A+ on her social skills!
I am so proud and just wanted to share!

Ashley just posted last week about her new interior decorator - her youngest son, Gage. Well, last weekend Ashley and the boys came to Lubbock to see Caden's last soccer game (I plan to steal pics from Ash and post about that later). During the visit, Gage must have given Jace some decorating tips. Jace decided to test them out on the pinball machine....



himself....

We had a great soccer filled weekend last weekend. Grandma, Shandra, Airiana and Shayne came from San Angelo to see Caden play soccer on Saturday and Airiana had 2 games on Sunday.
Here is everyone (except Shayne and Jace because they were kicking the soccer ball around) on the side lines.