Our Last Day

Tues June 10

This was our last full day in Colorado before heading back home to Louisiana. After the water park the kids played outside. We all enjoyed some icee's after dinner and Kaiden even rode his first big boy bike. Cameron was nice enough to let Kaiden ride his and after a few minutes of frustration on his end and mine he finally got the hang of it. After that he was cruising up and down the street trying to keep up with Nate.

Kaiden trying to get the hang of it

Nate's already a pro

Now he's getting the hang of it!

A few things about Cameron and Kaiden. They have what some might call a "love-hate" relationship. They could be playing great together one minute and then screaming at each other the next. It doesn't help that Kaiden is a few years younger and if he does something to bother Cameron and Cameron tells him to stop Kaiden thinks its funny and keeps doing it. But in Kaiden's head he thinks it's all a game and he's having a great time! A funny moment was when Sharon had the two boys in the van and they were saying what each color light means. Green means go, Red means stop and the Yellow light is what started the argument. We've always told Kaiden that Yellow means to go fast but Cameron was taught that Yellow means to stop. They were both positive that their way was right that they kept arguing back and forth. Sharon finally had to break in and tell them that they were both right and then change the subject. I was very surprised at Kaiden sleeping so well in Cameron's room and that they actually went to sleep! He loved being able to share a room and even sleep in Cameron's tent bed a few nights. Regardless of the disagreements the two of them had Kaiden loved being around Cameron and all of his other cousins. Kalli had the best time too but would get pretty frustrated when she couldn't keep up or do the things the big kids were doing. In all we had a wonderful time and were so grateful that we were able to visit with Mark, Sharon, Nate, Jake, and Cameron b/c it had been so long since the last time we were able to just hang out and have a good time. Sharon and I were also able to sneak away one night to get ice cream. We at our Cold Stone in the car and ended up sitting there and talking for over an hour! Good times!

Nate has gotten so big and grown up. It was so weird having him join in some of the adult conversations and him actually understand most of his dad's corny jokes. (Yes Mark, I said corny!) Nate has gotten to that stage were he's too cool for hugs and kisses. Well I wasn't having that so I made sure to give him a big hug our last night and even smothered him with kisses! It's going to be really hard on grandma when she gets back if he's still this stingy!

I know how embarrassing for an 11 year old!